Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.

Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.

There is a disease to which plays as well as men become liable with advancing years. In men it is called doting, in plays dating.The more topical the play the more it dates.

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

Absolute honesty is as absurd an abstraction as an absolute temperature or an absolute value.

I do not know what I think until I write it.

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.