Sister, you're trying to keep me alive as an old curiosity, but I'm done, I'm finished, I'm going to die.

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

An interesting play cannot in the nature of things mean anything but a play in which problems of conduct and character of personalimportance to the audience are raised and suggestively discussed.

Medical science is as yet very imperfectly differentiated from common cure-mongering witchcraft

The law is equal before all of us; but we are not all equal before the law. Virtually there is one law for the rich and another for the poor, one law for the cunning and another for the simple, one law for the forceful and another for the feeble, one law for the ignorant and another for the learned, one law for the brave and another for the timid, and within family limits one law for the parent and no law at all for the child.

When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any.

I fought linotype and montype for some time because it would not justify as well as handset could be made to do; but at last, as always happens, the machine outdid the hand, and got all the best types on it.