She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit. W.

So long as some are strong and some are weak, the weak will be driven to the wall.

Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem. W.

The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down hill.

The audience is a very curious animal. It is shrewd rather than intelligent. Its mental capacity is less than that of its most intellectual members.

The audience is not the least important actor in the play and if it will not do its allotted share the play falls to pieces.

The author always loads his dice, but he must never let the reader see that he has done so.

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.

The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It is the achievement of beauty and delicacy. The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.

The drama is make-believe. It does not deal with truth but with effect.