The Secret Of The Man Who Is

What The American Public Wants In The Theater Is A Tragedy With A Happy Ending.

The Book Which You Read From A Sense Of Duty, Or Because For Any Reason You Must, Does Not Commonly Make Friends With You.

A Friend Knows How To Allow For Mere Quantity In Your Talk, And Only Replies To The Quality.

The Mortality Of All Inanimate Things Is Terrible To Me, But That Of Books Most Of All.

It's A Curious Thing, This Thing We Call Civilization...we Think It Is An Affair Of Epochs, And Nations. It's Really An Affair Of Individuals. One Brother Will Be Civilized And The Other A Barbarian...all Civilization Comes Through Literature Now, Especially In Our Country. A Greek Got His Civilization By Talking And Looking, And In Some Measure A Parisian May Still Do It. But We, Who Live Remote From History And Monuments, We Must Read Or We Must Barbarise.