Now it is a funny thing about life. If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. If you utterly decline to make do with what you can get, then somehow or other, you are very likely to get what you want.

An art is only great and significant if it is one that all may enjoy. The art of a clique is but a plaything.

You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.

The great critic … must be a philosopher, for from philosophy he will learn serenity, impartiality, and the transitoriness of human things.

It requires the feminine temperament to repeat the same thing three times with unabated zest.

The secret of play-writing can be given in two maxims: stick to the point, and, whenever you can, cut.

No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul.