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

It is the still, small voice that the soul heeds, not the deafening blasts of doom..

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

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

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

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

He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence..

Is it worth while to observe that there are no Venetian blinds in Venice?.

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

People naturally despise a dependant..

Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart..

The wars come and go in blood and tears; but whether they are bad wars, or what are comically called good wars, they are of one effect in death and s….

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 universa….

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 n….

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

The disposition to give a cup of cold water to a disciple is a far nobler property than the finest intellect. Satan has a fine intellect, but not the….

I know, indeed, of nothing more subtly satisfying and cheering than a knowledge of the real good will and appreciation of others. Such happiness does….

Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself..

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..

Primitive societies without religion have never been found..

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