Profoundness, genius, spontaneity, merit, nobility, ingenuity, voice propriety, feeling, discernment, sensibility, good taste, great tone, rightness, courtliness, vivacity, boldness, style, freshness, harmony, perfection, imagination, purity, correctness. The greatest writer of all times. God's most astonishing creation.

Our passions are true phoenixes; as the old burn out the new straight rise up from the ashes.

He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.

Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it.

Good children's literature appeals not only to the child in the adult, but to the adult in the child.

I've often heard it said a preacher might learn with a comedian for a teacher.

I wish the stage were as narrow as the wire of a tighrope dancer so that no incompetent would dare step upon it.