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.

We are creatures of the moment; we live from one little space to another, and only one interest at a time fills these.

He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence.

The book which you read from a sense of duty, or because for any reason you must, does not commonly make friends with you.

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.

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

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