We do not write as we want, but as we can.

The audience is not the least important actor in the play and if it will not do its allotted share the play falls to pieces.

There is no object to life. To nature nothing matters but the continuation of the species.

It has amazed me that the most incongruous traits should exist in the same person and, for all that, yield a plausible harmony.

It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late. It does not improve the temper.

He is not famous. It may be that he never will be. It may be that when his life at last comes to an end he will leave no more trace of his sojourn on earth than a stone thrown into a river leaves on the surface of the water. But it may be that the way of life that he has chosen for himself and the peculiar strength and sweetness of his character may have an ever-growing influence over his fellow men so that, long after his death perhaps, it may be realized that there lived in this age a very remarkable creature.

Genius is talent provided with ideals. Genius starves while talent wears purple and fine linen. The man of genius of today will infifty years' time be in most cases no more than a man of talent.