New York has always prided itself on its bad manners. That is the real source of our strength.

when I am alone in the forest I always say my prayers; and that occasional solitary communion with God is surely the only true religion for intelligent beings.

California has all the beauties of youth as well as its idiocies and vices.

Success is a great healer.

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

No matter how hard a man may labor, some woman is always in the background of his mind. She is the one reward of virtue.

Never trust a woman who will not lie about her age after thirty. She is unwomanly and unhuman and there is no knowing what crimes she will commit.