The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

There are no perfectly honorable men; but every true man has one main point of honor and a few minor ones.

It is ridiculous to say that art has nothing to do with morality. What is true is that the artist's business is not that of the policeman.

I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend... if you have one.

While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal living conditions on this earth?

It is assumed that the woman must wait, motionless, until she is wooed. That is how the spider waits for the fly.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.