To the bottle! In infancy, the milk bottle; in our prime, the wine bottle; in our dotage, the pill bottle.

Conflict is the very essence of life.

There is nothing for the modern man or woman to fear about most cases of cancer. Nothing except delay.

I suppose it is because woman's courage is mental and man's physical, that in times of great strain women always make the better showing.

Every writer knows the terror of an unexpected success. How to carry on? How to repeat it?

The only way to make a husband over according to one's ideas ... would be to adopt him at an early age, say four.

there is something shameful about the death of a play. It does not die with pity, but contempt. A book may fail, but who is there to know it? It dies and is buried, and is decently interred on the bookseller's shelf; but the play dies to laughter, to scorn and disdain.