No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.

I have a simple taste, only the best.

I wonder who it was defined man as a rational animal. It was the most premature definition ever given. Man is many things, but he is not rational.

Why can't these American women stay in their own country? They are always telling us that it is the paradise for women. It is. That is the reason why, like Eve, they are so excessively anxious to get out of it.

The mere mechanical technique of acting can be taught, but the spirit that is to give life to lifeless forms must be born in a man. No dramatic college can teach its pupils to think or to feel. It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression.

Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.

Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.