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.

Happy you poets who can be present and so present by a simple flicker of your genius, and not, like the clumsier race, have to laya train and pile up faggots that may not after prove in the least combustible!

Her chief dread in life, at this period of her development, was that she would appear narrow minded; what she feared next afterwards was that she should be so.

Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.

Until you try, you don't know what you can't do.

In the long run an opinion often borrows credit from the forbearance of its patrons.

I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.