Each one of us must suffer long to himself before he can learn that he is but one in a great community of wretchedness which has been pitilessly repeating itself from the foundation of the world.

He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence.

What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.

In Europe life is histrionic and dramatized, and in America, except when it is trying to be European, it is direct and sincere.

Some people stay longer in an hour than others can in a week.

It is the curse of prosperity that it takes work away from us, and shuts that door to hope and health of spirit.

A man never sees all that his mother has been to him until it's too late to let her know that he sees it.