Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others.

I have no axe to grind; only my thoughts to burnish.

America is a young country with an old mentality.

To substitute judgments of fact for judgments of value is a sign of pedantic and borrowed criticism.

Not to believe in love is a great sign of dullness. There are some people so indirect and lumbering that they think all real affection rests on circumstantial evidence.

The theatre, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history, because the medium has a kindred movement to that of real life, though an artificial setting and form.

Depression is rage spread thin.