There is no such thing as a good influence. Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtures are not real to him. His sins, if there are such thing as sins, are borrowed. He becomes an echo of someone else's music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him.

And certainly once a man begins to neglect his domestic duties he becomes painfully effeminate, does he not? And I don't like that. It makes men so very attractive.

How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.

Most people live for love and admiration. But it is by love and admiration that we should live.

Even things that are true can be proved.

Always be a little unexpected.

The only link between Literature and the Drama left to us in England at the present moment is the bill of the play.