It was said of Miss Letitia that when money came into her possession it went out of circulation.

[On the Irish:] Strange race ... Don't know what they want, but want it like the devil.

[On fishing:] Greatest rest in the world for the brain.

It takes a good many years and some pretty hard knocks to make people tolerant.

There is something shameful about the death of a play. It does not die with pity, but contempt.

Patience and endurance were not virtues in a woman; they were necessities, forced on her. Perhaps some day things would change and women would renounce them. They would rise up and say: 'We are not patient. We will endure no more.' Then what would happen to the world?

What a tragedy it was that the only thing age could offer to youth was its own experience, and that the experiences of others were never profitable.