Those who minister to poverty and disease are accomplices in the two worst of all the crimes.

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation.

Woman reduces us all to the common denominator.

A man learns to skate by staggering about and making a fool of himself. Indeed he progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself.

If parents would only realize how they bore their children.

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.