No loose fish enters our quiet bay.

The final result of too much routine is death in life.

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

To put a tempting face aside when duty demands every faculty is a lesson which takes most men longest to learn.

Authors are far closer to the truths enfolded in mystery than ordinary people, because of that very audacity of imagination which irritates their plodding critics. As only those who dare to make mistakes succeed greatly, only those who shake free the wings of their imagination brush, once in a way, the secrets of the great pale world. If such writers go wrong, it is not for the mere brains to tell them so

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

the only revenge worth having is success.