“He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence.”
“The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.”
“An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.”
“Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself.”
“Some people can stay longer in an hour than others can in a week.”
“What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.”
“It is the still, small voice that the soul heeds, not the deafening blasts of doom.”
“A man never sees all that his mother has been to him until it's too late to let her know he sees it.”
“I know, indeed, of nothing more subtle satisfying and cheering than a knowledge of the real good will and appreciation of others. Such happiness does not come with money, nor does it flow from a fine physical state. It cannot be bought. But it is the keenest joy, after all; and the toiler's truest and best reward.”