These are times of action. Men think and then act; sometimes, indeed, they simply act.

It's the safety valve of middle life, and the solace of age.

Lightning never strikes twice in the same place.

Besides, you want the unvarnished and ungarnished truth, and I'm no hand for that. I'm a lawyer.

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

There is a point at which curiosity becomes unbearable, when it becomes an obsession, like hunger.

Men play harder than they work; women work harder than they play.