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 only one way to win hearts and that is to make oneself like unto those of whom one would be loved.

It's asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesthetic. - Of Human Bondage

Thank God, I can look at a sunset now without having to think how to describe it

The humour of Dostoievsky is the humour of a barloafer who ties a kettle to a dog's tail.

It is not for nothing that artists have called their works the children of their brains and likened the pains of production to the pains of childbirth.

I don't understand anything. Life is so strange. I feel like some one who's lived all his life by a duck-pond and suddenly is shown the sea. It makes me a little breathless, and yet it fills me with elation. I don't want to die, I want to live. I'm beginning to feel a new courage. I feel like one of those old sailors who set sail for undiscovered seas and I think my soul hankers for the unknown.