The bachelors admired freedom is often a yoke, for the freer a man is to himself the greater slave he often is to the whims of others.

The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.

It is the mark of a superior person that, left to themselves they are able endlessly to amuse, interest and entertain themselves out of their personal stock of meditations, ideas, criticisms, memories, philosophy, humor and what not.

Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.

A man's wife is his compromise with the illusion of his first sweetheart.

Opening Night: The night before the play is ready to open.

Great drama is the souvenir of the adventure of a master among the pieces of his own soul.