Philosophy has a fine saying for everything.-For Death it has an entire set.

Simplicity is the great friend to nature, and if I would be proud of anything in this silly world, it should be of this honest alliance.

An interesting difference between new and experienced stage managers is that the new stage manager thinks of running the show as the most difficult and most demanding part of the job, whereas the experienced stage manager thinks of it as the most relaxing part. Perhaps the reason is that experienced stage managers have built up work habits that make then so thoroughly prepared for the production phase that they [can] sit back during performances to watch that preparation pay off.

For I begin with writing the first sentence, — and trusting to Almighty God for the second.

For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

Hail! the small courtesies of life, for smooth do ye make the road of it, like grace and beauty, which beget inclinations to love at first sight; it is ye who open the door and let the stranger in.

An atheist is more reclaimable than a papist, as ignorance is sooner cured than superstition.