You'll find as you grow older that you weren't born such a great while ago after all. The time shortens up.

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

If ever the public was betrayed by its press, it's ours.

How is it the great pieces of good luck fall to us?

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

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

It's a curious thing, this thing we call civilization...we think it is an affair of epochs, and nations. It's really an affair of individuals. One brother will be civilized and the other a barbarian...All civilization comes through literature now, especially in our country. A Greek got his civilization by talking and looking, and in some measure a Parisian may still do it. But we, who live remote from history and monuments, we must read or we must barbarise.