Democracy is a word all public men use and none understand.

An American has no sense of privacy. He does not know what it means.There is no such thing in the country.

The one point on which all women are in furious secret rebellion against the existing law is the saddling of the right to a child with the obligation to become the servant of a man.

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

Fine art is the subtlest, the most seductive, the most effective instrument of moral propaganda in the world, excepting only the example of personal conduct; and I waive even this exception in favor of the art of the stage, because it works by exhibiting examples of personal conduct made intelligible and moving to crowds of unobservant unreflecting people to whom real life means nothing.

A third variety of drama ... begins as tragedy with scraps of fun in it ... and ends in comedy without mirth in it, the place of mirth being taken by a more or less bitter and critical irony.

This is my father. Try what you can with him! He won't listen to me, because he remembers what a fool I was when I was a baby.