The drama's altar isn't on the stage: it is candle-sticked and flowered in the box office. There is the gold, though there be no frankincense or myrrh; and the gospel for the day always The Play will Run for a Year. The Dove of Inspiration, of the desire for inspiration, has flown away from it; and on it's roof, now, the commonplace crow caws candidly.

Wealth often takes away chances from men as well as poverty. There is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows his own life.

Money does not make you happy but it quiets the nerves.

All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.

That's the Irish all over -- they treat a joke as a serious thing and a serious thing as a joke.

A laugh is the loud echo of a sigh; a sigh the faint echo of a laugh.

Politics - I don't know why, but they seem to have a tendency to separate us, to keep us from one another, while nature is always and ever making efforts to bring us together.