if there's a spirit world why don't the ghosts of dead artists get together and inhibit bad playwrights from tormenting first-nighters?

fiction is not only the historian of life but its apologist.

A man is more than one being in his life. If the last persists, why not the first? If there be a hereafter for his age, why not for his youth?

Men are not amusing during the shooting season; but, after all, my dear, men were not especially designed to amuse women.

The very commonplaces of life are components of its eternal mystery.

power, after it has ceased from troubling, is the dominant passion in human nature.

I see no present solution of a great and intricate problem but that the rich should realize their duty to the poor.