One day I'll be dead and THEN you'll all be sorry.
I consider the success of my day based on the seeds I sow, not the harvest I reap.
And this shall be for music when no one else is near, The fine song for singing, the rare song to hear! That only I remember, that only you admire, Of the broad road that stretches and the roadside fire.
Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.
There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.
Actors are an insecure breed. It's hard to have your career depend upon other people's opinions of what you do.
Not only does every animal live at the expense of some other animal or plant, but the very plants are at war. . . . The individuals of a species are like the crew of a foundered ship, and none but good swimmers have a chance of reaching the land.
The most pleasure any manager can get is seeing everyday boys joining the Club as youngsters and growing into men and giving themselves a better social standing than they could ever have dreamed of previously.
This is servitude, To serve the unwise.