Reserve is an artificial quality that is developed in most of us but as the result of innumerable rebuffs.

Affection is created by habit, community of interests, convenience and the desire of companionship. It is a comfort rather than an exhilaration.

The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willingly avoids the sight of distress.

By the time an actor knows how to act any sort of part he is often too old to act any but a few.

It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering, for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.

Considering how foolishly people act and how pleasantly they prattle, perhaps it would be better for the world if they talked more and did less.

When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which h W.

I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present. W.

Life isn't long enough for love and art. W.

When things are at their worst I find something always happens. W.