There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.
The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.
While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.