I have yet to find a man worth his salt in any direction who did not think of himself first and foremost.
A man's wife is his compromise with the illusion of his first sweetheart.
An actor without a playwright is like a hole without a doughnut.
Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.
It may be said that artist and censor differ in this wise: that the first is a decent mind in an indecent body and that the second is an indecent mind in a decent body.
The notion that as a man grows older his illusions leave him is not quite true. What is true is that his early illusions are supplanted by new, and to him, equally convincing illusions.