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

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.

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

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

Do not trouble yourselves about standards or ideals; but try to be faithful and natural: remember that there is no greatness, no beauty, which does not come from truth to your own knowledge of things; and keep on working, even if your work is not long remembered.

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

Preach the blessings of our deeply incorporated civilization by the mouths of our eight-inch guns.