Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.

Patriotism is a word which always commemorates a robbery.

The function of the actor is to make the audience imagine for the moment that real things are happening to real people.

The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.

As people get their opinions so largely from the newspapers they read... But the Press is not free, the newspapers are owned by rich men.

Jesus remains unshaken as the practical man; and we stand exposed as the fools, the blunderers, the unpractical visionaries.

The American white relegates the black to the rank of shoeshine boy; and he concludes from this that the black is good for nothing but shining shoes.