He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.

To treat a big subject in the intensely summarized fashion demanded by an evening's traffic of the stage when the evening, freely clipped at each end, is reduced to two hours and a half, is a feat of which the difficulty looms large.

Women never dine alone. When they dine alone they don't dine.

I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.

A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.

The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implication of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern, the condition of feeling life, in general, so completely that you are well on your way to knowing any particular corner of it-this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience, and they occur in country and in town, and in the most differing stages of education.

It exhibits the effort of an essentially prosaic mind to lift itself, by a prolonged muscular strain, into poetry.