Every person who has ever lived has lived an unbroken succession of unique occasions.

Many great writers have been extraordinarily awkward in daily exchange, but the greatest give the impression that their style was nursed by the closest attention to colloquial speech.

The theatre is supremely fitted to say: 'Behold! These things are.' Yet most dramatists employ it to say: 'This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action.'

Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.

The difference between a little money and no money at all is enormous-and can shatter the world. And the difference between a little money and an enormous amount of money is very slight-and that, also, can shatter the world.

All excellence is equally difficult.

The best thing about animals is they don't talk much.