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

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 have laid my cheek upon the earth and felt it my mother's bosom.

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.

If you can read this you can read me.

Our best loved friend is always in some way our peer.