"There is no legimate actor who can resist the powerful lure of the movies. It isn't the money that fetches him. It isn't the great publicity. It is simply this: the movies enable an actor to look at himself."

"A ready way to lose your friend is to lend him money. Another equally ready way to lose him is to refuse to lend him money. It is six of one and a half dozen of the other."

"There is something distinguished about even his failures; they sink not trivially, but with a certain air of majesty, like a great ship, its flags flying, full of holes."

"An abstainer is the sort of man you wouldn't want to drink with even if he did."

"Sex touches the heavens only when it simultaneously touches the gutter and the mud."

"The bachelors admired freedom is often a yoke, for the freer a man is to himself the greater slave he often is to the whims of others."

"The sweetest memory is that which involves something which one should not have done; the bitterest, that which involves something which one should not have done, and which one did not do."

"A poet, any real poet, is simply an alchemist who transmutes his cynicism regarding human beings into an optimism regarding the moon, the stars, the heavens, and the flowers, to say nothing of Spring, love, and dogs."

"Men go to the theatre to forget; women, to remember."

"All one has to do to gather a large crowd in New York is to stand on the curb a few minutes and gaze intently at the sky."

"A man's wife is his compromise with the illusion of his first sweetheart."

"Whenever a man encounters a woman in a mood he doesn't understand, he wants to know if she's tired."

"So long as there is one pretty girl left on the stage, the professional undertakers may hold up their burial of the theater."

"It is only the cynicism that is born of success that is penetrating and valid."

"I know many married men, I even know a few happily married men, but I don't know one who wouldn't fall down the first open coal hole running after the first pretty girl who gave him a wink."

"Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen."

"Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men."

"To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination."

"One does not go to the theater to see life and nature; one goes to see the particular way in which life and nature happen to look to a cultivated, imaginative and entertaining man who happens, in turn, to be a playwright."

"Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men."

"To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination."

"One does not go to the theater to see life and nature; one goes to see the particular way in which life and nature happen to look to a cultivated, imaginative and entertaining man who happens, in turn, to be a playwright."

"It is the mark of a superior person that, left to themselves they are able endlessly to amuse, interest and entertain themselves out of their personal stock of meditations, ideas, criticisms, memories, philosophy, humor and what not."

"If we say we trust in Him, but in reality do not, then God, taking us at our word, lets us see that we do not really confide in Him, and hence failure arises."

"The Lord Jesus, everything. In himself worse than nothing. By grace, in Christ, the son of the King."

"There is an intimate connection between the life of the Christian here and the enjoyment and the glory in the day of Christ's appearing."

"Often the work of the Lord itself may be a temptation to keep us from that communion with Him which is so essential to the benefit of our own souls."

"Oh this is reality, not a fable, that the Lord Jesus Christ is our friend. And we should not be satisfied until we are brought to this."

"Trials, obstacles, difficulties and sometimes defeats, are the very food of faith."

"A servant of God has but one Master. It ill becomes the servant to seek to be rich, and great, and honored in that world where his Lord was poor, and mean, and despised."

"The joy which answers to prayer give, cannot be described; and the impetus which they afford to the spiritual life is exceedingly great."

"Laying up treasures in heaven will draw the heart heavenward."

"Where faith begins, anxiety ends; where anxiety begins, faith end."

"God is pleased continually to vary His mode of dealing with us, in order that we may not be tempted to trust in donors, or in circumstances, but in Him alone, and to keep our eye fixed upon Him."

"I desire many things concerning myself; but I desire nothing so much, as to have a heart filled with love to the Lord. I long for a warm personal attachment to Him."

"God judges what we give by what we keep."

"If we desire our faith to be strengthened, we should not shrink from opportunities where our faith may be tried, and therefore, through trial, be strengthened."

"I believe God has heard my prayers. He will make it manifest in His own good time that He has heard me. I have recorded my petitions that when God has answered them, His name will be glorified."

"When the day of recompense comes, our only regret will be that we have done so little for Him, not that we have done too much."

"God is the author of the Bible, and only the truth it contains will lead people to true happiness."

"The greater the trial, the sweeter the victory."

"Every instance of obedience, from right motives, strengthens us spiritually, whilst every act of disobedience weakens us."

"The greater the difficulty to be overcome, the more will it be seen to the glory of God how much can be done by prayer and faith."

"Be assured that Christianity is something more than forms and creeds and ceremonies: there is life, and power, and reality, in our holy faith."

"When God overcomes our difficulties for us, we have the assurance that we are engaged in His work and not our own"

"The word of God is our only standard, and the Holy Spirit our only teacher."

"The province of faith begins where probabilities cease and sight and sense fail."

"If the Holy Spirit guides us, He will do it according to "the "Scriptures and never contrary to them."

"The first great and primary business to which I ought to attend every day is to have my soul happy in the Lord."

"Our heavenly Father never takes anything from his children unless he means to give them something better."