Comparatively few people know what a million dollars actually is. To the majority it is a gaseous concept, swelling or decreasing as the occasion suggests.

The critic is the duenna in the passionate affair between playwrights, actors and audiences - a figure dreaded, and occasionally comic, but never welcome, never loved.

It is a waste of time to dissipate one's moral zeal in disapproving of royal persons who have mistresses.

The drama may be called that part of theatrical art which lends itself most readily to intellectual discussion: what is left is theater.

The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.

Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.

The art of the quoter is to know when to stop.