Great writers create; writers of smaller gifts copy

Comedy appeals to the collective mind of the audience and this grows fatigued; while farce appeals to a more robust organ, their collective belly.

From old habit, unconsciously he thanked God that he no longer believed in Him.

Well, you know when people are no good at anything else they become writers.

I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.

I never spend more than one hour in a gallery. That is as long as one's power of appreciation persists.

When people say they do not care what others think of them, for the most part they deceive themselves. Generally they mean only that they will do as they choose, in the confidence that no one will know their vagaries; and at the utmost only that they are willing to act contrary to the opinion of the majority because they are supported by the approval of their neighbours. It is not difficult to be unconventional in the eyes of the world when your unconventionality is but the convention of your set.