There is no joy so great as that of reporting that a good play has come to town.

After each war there is a little less democracy left to save.

Walking companions, like heroes, are difficult to pluck out of the crowd of acquaintances. Good dispositions, ready wit, friendly conversation serve well enough by the fireside but they prove insufficient in the field. For there you need transcendentalists-nothing less; you need poets, sages, humorists and natural philosophers.

I have no objections to churches so long as they do not interfere with God's work.

In the ideal sense nothing is uninteresting; there are only uninterested people.

Real art is illumination, it adds stature to life.

Nobody is fully alive who cannot apply to art as much discrimination and appreciation as he applies to the work by which he earns his living.