"In Mozart and Salieri we see the contrast between the genius which does what it must and the talent which does what i…"

"Lord Saint-Edith said he couldn't understand people thinking Bacon had written Shakespeare's plays. If they said Shak…"

"Whoever one is, and wherever one is, one is always in the wrong if one is rude."

"A good play is a play which, when acted upon the boards, makes an audience interested and pleased. A play that fails …"

"If you would know what the Lord God thinks of money, you have only to look at those to whom He gives it."

"I wish I was dead, And lay deep in the grave. I've a pain in my head, I wish I was dead. In a coffin of lead— With th…"

"Thank God I'm alive In the light of the Sun! It's a quarter to five; Thank God I'm alive! Now the hum of the hive Of …"

"Here's the lily, here the rose Her full chalice shall disclose; Here's narcissus wet with dew, Windflower and the vio…"

""Lest that by any means When I have preached to others I myself Should be a castaway." If some one now Would take tha…"

"In the days of my early acquaintance with Henley, some fourteen or fifteen years ago, I could never look at him witho…"