God's world is a good place. The one thing not good in it is we. How little justice and humility there is in us. How little we understand true patriotism!

For the salvation of his soul the Muslim digs a well. It would be a fine thing if each of us were to leave behind a school, or a well, or something of the sort, so that life would not pass by and retreat into eternity without a trace.

Man is what he believes.

One must not put a loaded rifle on the stage if no one is thinking of firing it.

All saints have past and all sinners have a future.

It is as acceptable now to love the wives of others as it is to smoke their cigars and read their books.

Everyone judges plays as if they were very easy to write. They don't know that it is hard to write a good play, and twice as hardand tortuous to write a bad one.