The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.

and he loved her suddenly because she loved him.

My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.

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

Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.

Life wouldn’t be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always happens.

I now, weak, old, diseased, poor, dying, hold still my soul in my hands, and I regret nothing.