There are men whose sense of humour is so ill developed that they still bear a grudge against Copernicus because he dethroned them from the central position in the universe. They feel it a personal affront that they can no longer consider themselves the pivot upon which turns the whole of created things.

The humorist has a good eye for the humbug; he does not always recognize the saint.

Reserve is an artificial quality that is developed in most of us but as the result of innumerable rebuffs.

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.

Refecting on the high divorce rate in America as contrasted with England "American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers

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.

The drama is make-believe. It does not deal with truth but with effect.