To many people dramatic criticism must seem like an attempt to tattoo soap bubbles.
The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
It is in the hard rockpile labour of seeking to win, hold, or deserve a reader's interest that the pleasant agony of writing comes in.
The purpose of writing is to hold a mirror to nature, but too much today is written from small mirrors in vanity cases.
He played the king as if afraid someone else would play the ace.
Charm is a glow within a woman that casts a most becoming light on others.
Some television programs are so much chewing gum for the eyes.
No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.
The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action.
How prophetic L'Enfant was when he laid out Washington as a city that goes around in circles!
