"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…"

"[T]here is a vast difference between games and play. Play is played for fun, but games are deadly serious, and you do…"

"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…"