It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

bad literature of the sort called amusing is spiritual gin.

It is in the nature of foolish reasonings to seem good to the foolish reasoner.

Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.

So to live is heaven; to make undying music in the world.

I think there are stores laid up in our human nature that our understandings can make no complete inventory of.

Plain women he regarded as he did the other severe facts of life, to be faced with philosophy and investigated by science.