Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.

The prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself of small account.

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

Culture is not just an ornament; it is the expression of a nation's character, and at the same time it is a powerful instrument to mould character. The end of culture is right living.

A Unitarian very earnestly disbelieves what everyone else believes.

I knew that suffering did not enoble; it degraded. It made men selfish, petty and suspicious. It absorbed them in small things...it made them less than men; and I wrote ferociously that we learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.

The spirit is often most free when the body is satiated with pleasure; indeed, sometimes the stars shine more brightly seen from the gutter than from the hilltop.