Without enthusiasm, virtue functions not at all, and vice only poorly.

With men, as with women, the main struggle is between vanity and comfort; but with men, comfort often wins.

Theatre audiences can't be made to think and cry: at best, they can be made to think and laugh, or to feel and cry.

With each passing year, one has less to say, and knows better how to say it.

Learn a little of anything, and you're ready to proselytize.

No one can understand love who has not experienced infatuation. And no one can understand infatuation, no matter how many times he has experienced it.

Fields can lie fallow but we can't; we have less time.