Great Throughts Treasury

"Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young."

"I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate."

"A financier is a pawnbroker with imagination."

"Darling, if we promise each other to forget, to forget, we're bound to be happy. After all, it's a mechanical matter ; the moment a wretched thought enters your head, you quickly think of something bright — it depends on one's will."

"Dreams are only a hash-up of one's day-thoughts.. Think intently of anything, and it's bound to come back to you at night."

"I couldn't foresee that I was doomed to pay the price all nervous men pay for success; that the greater my success became, the more cancer-like grew the fear of never being able to continue it, to excel it; that the triumph of today was always to be the torture of tomorrow."

"It is not too late for us, in our own lives, to pit the highest interpretation upon that word—Love. Think of the inner sustaining power it would give us! We agree to go through the world together, preaching the lesson taught us by our experiences."

"Fingerprints will always show however faint."

"I'd like to see America but I'm afraid to risk it. As soon as I got over Mr. Frohman might request me to sit in a box at the performance of one of my plays."

"From forty to fifty a man is at heart either a stoic or a satyr"

"Once you smear it, or you scratch it,"

"It's impossible to match it."

"The sorrow is mine and mine only."

"There are two sorts of affection - the love of a woman you respect, and the love for the woman you love"

"There will be some trouble about 'biography' because I have never troubled myself to supply particulars of my early life to any writer."