Youth is harmed by having wisdom thrust upon it. Youth must gather wisdom slowly, in laughter and tears.

Wedlock is the deep, deep peace of the double bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise lounge.

Lillian Gish may be a charming person, but she is not Ophelia. She comes on stage as if she had been sent for to sew rings on the new curtains.

I do not really care what people do as long as they do not do it in the street and frighten the horses.

If you can read this you can read me.

[Moses] probably said to himself, 'Must stop or I shall be getting silly.' That is why there are only ten commandments.

I believe I was impatient with unintelligent people from the moment I was born: a tragedy - for I am myself three-parts a fool.