Who said “Every crowd has a silver lining.”?

“To have great poets, there must be great audiences too.”

“I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.”

“It was a good thing to have a couple of thousand people all rigid and frozen together, in the palm of one's hand.”

“My conception of the audience is of a public each member of which is carrying about with him what he thinks is an anxiety, or a hope, or a preoccupation which is his alone and isolates him from mankind; and in this respect at least the function of a play is to reveal him to himself so that he may touch others by virtue of the revelation of his mutuality with them. If only for this reason I regard the theater as a serious business, one that makes or should make man more human, which is to say, less alone.”

“I never let them cough. They wouldn't dare.”

“Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.”

“More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing than by believing in too much.”

“Those who really desire to attain an independence, have only set their minds upon it, and adopt the proper means, as they do in regard to any other object which they wish to accomplish, and the thing is easily done.”

“There's a sucker born every minute.”