It is the still, small voice that the soul heeds, not the deafening blasts of doom.
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.
What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.
The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.
If we like a man's dream, we call him a reformer; if we don't like his dream, we call him a crank.
