The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.

It is much more easy to have sympathy with suffering than it is to have sympathy with thought.

Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber

Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.

I am quite incapable of understanding how any work of art can be criticized from a moral standpoint. The sphere of art and the sphere of ethics are absolutely distinct and separate.

Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval.

A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.