Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic - a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us.

While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.

Every effect that one produces gives one an enemy. To be popular one must be a mediocrity.

Sometimes it takes courage to give into temptation.

Newspapers. . . give us the bald, sordid, disgusting facts of life. They chronicle, with degrading avidity, the sins of the second-rate, and with the conscientiousness of the illiterate give us accurate and prosaic details. . .

Comfort is the only thing our civilization can give us.

One should never make one's entrance with a scandal. One should reserve that to give an interest to one's old age.

Give children beauty, not the record of bloody slaughters and barbarous brawls, as they call history, or of the latitude and longitude of places nobody cares to visit, as they call geography.

Don't squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar