the theater is the only money-making business I know in which haste apparently rules from first to last.

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

Death was a beginning and not an end; it was the morning of the spirit. Tired bodies lay down to sleep and their souls wakened to the morning, rested; the first fruits of them that slept.

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

That is the tragedy of growing old, Chris. You don't leave the world. It leaves you.

it's been my experience that the first few days of married life women are blind because they want to be and after that because they have to be.

The greatest weapon in the world ... is ridicule.