Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

[The writer] wants both to do the best possible work and also to reach the largest possible audience. The result is a fairly normal condition of discouragement.

I found that my name signed to a check was even more welcome than when signed to a letter.

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

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

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

Some day some one will write a book about that frantic search of the creative worker for silence and freedom, not only from interruption but from the fear of interruption.