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.

America is a young country with an old mentality.

Children are natural mythologists: they beg to be told tales, and love not only to invent but to enact falsehoods.

The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be.

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

Old age is as forgetful as youth, and more incorrigible; it displays the same inattentiveness to conditions; its memory becomes self-repeating and degenerates into an instinctive reaction, like a bird's chirp.

Men become superstitious, not because they have too much imagination, but because they are not aware that they have any.