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.

The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.

I have always been convinced that if a woman once made up her mind to marry a man, nothing but instant flight could save him.

Just as the painter thinks with his brush and paints the novelist thinks with his story.

A little smoke lost in the air, that was the life of a man.

One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one's life with her.