Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.

If a sense of duty tortures a man, it also enables him to achieve prodigies.

The more a man dreams, the less he believes.

I know of no American who starts from a higher level of aspiration than the journalist. . . . He plans to be both an artist and a moralist -- a master of lovely words and merchant of sound ideas. He ends, commonly, as the most depressing jackass of his community -- that is, if his career goes on to what is called a success.

Wife: a former sweetheart.

The older I grow the less I esteem mere ideas. In politics, particularly, they are transient and unimportant. . . . There are only men who have character and men who lack it.

The theatre, when all is said and done, is not life in miniature, but life enormously magnified, life hideously exaggerated.