Comedy appeals to the collective mind of the audience and this grows fatigued; while farce appeals to a more robust organ, their collective belly.

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

No action is in itself good or bad, but only such according to convention.

It has been said that good prose should resemble the conversation of a well-bred man.

It must be that there is something naturally absurd in a sincere emotion, though why there should be I cannot imagine, unless it is that man, the ephemeral inhabitant of an insignificant planet, with all his pain and all his striving is but a jest in an eternal mind.

The moral I draw is that the writer should seek his reward in the pleasure of his work and in release from the burden of thought; and, indifferent to aught else, care nothing for praise or censure, failure or success.

I do not think you want too much sincerity in society. It would be like an iron girder in a house of cards.