By beauty of course I mean truth, for the one involves the other; it is only the false in art which is ugly, and it is only the ugly that is universal.

The secret of the man who is universally interesting is that he is universally interested.

A friend knows how to allow for mere quantity in your talk, and only replies to the quality.

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.

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

There will presently be no room in the world for things; it will be filled up with the advertisements of things.

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