there comes a time when ambition ceases to burn, or romance to stir, and the highest cry of the human heart is for peace.

[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.

Girls inevitably grew into women, but something of the boy persisted in every man.

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

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

when knowledge comes in at the door, fear and superstition fly out of the window.

Young Doctor Arden was gong through the process of reorienting himself after a night's sleep.