To many people, dramatic criticism must seem like an attempt to tattoo soap bubbles..

The more one has seen of the good, the more one asks for the better..

What happiness is, no person can say for another. But no one, I am convinced, can be happy who lives only for himself. The joy of living comes from i….

Part of the American myth is that people who are handed the skin of a dead sheep at graduating time think that it will keep their minds alive forever..

Some television programs are so much chewing gum for the eyes..

Even when the facts are available, most people seem to prefer the legend, and refuse to believe the truth when it in any way dislodges the myth..

No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause..

Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by ….

I have lived long enough to be battered by the realities of life, and not too long to be downed by them..

America is a land where men govern, but women rule..

Nowhere are prejudices more mistaken for truth, passion for reason and invective for documentation than in politics..

Reasoning with a child is fine, if you can reach the child's reason without destroying your own..

No man, with a man's heart in him gets far on his way without some bitter, soul-searching disappointment. Happy is he who is brave enough to push on ….

The purpose of writing is to hold a mirror to nature, but too much today is written from small mirrors in vanity cases..

So often we rob tomorrow's memories by today's economies..

The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action..

I am as content to die for God's eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way..

She knows what is the best purpose of education: not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life..

The comic book is the marijuana of the nursery, the bane of the bassinet, the horror of the home, the curse of the kids and a threat to the future..

He played the king as if afraid someone else would play the ace..

Charm is a glow within a woman which casts a most becoming light on others..