"Though the Negroes are fed, clothed, and housed, and though the Irish peasant is starved, naked, and roofless, the ba…"

"I want to do everything in the world that can be done."

"Simplicity is a great element of good breeding."

"A good many causes tend to make good masters and mistresses quite as rare as good servants.... The large and rapid fo…"

"I never really had any aspirations to be an actor when I was young. I wanted to play the piano in a bar, to be the ol…"

"If I do decide one day to stop acting, I just hate the idea of people going: 'Oh, did you ever do anything else besid…"

"I don't really know how to act, I kind of wanted to somehow make it real, and one of the ways I've always thought mak…"

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

"When men live in small communities, ... they cannot avoid personal participation in some public functions. So it was …"

"It is impossible to maintain that these attributes [caution and progress] have been constant in the two great English…"