Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

In heaven, when the blessed use the telephone they will say what they have to say and not a word besides.

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

Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.

The inclination to digress is human. But the dramatist must avoid it even more strenuously than the saint must avoid sin, for while sin may be venial, digression is mortal.

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.

Self-control might be as passionate and as active as the surrender to passion.