You don't expect me to know what to say about a play when I don't know who the author is, do you? . . . If it's by a good author, it's a good play, naturally. That stands to reason.

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

Imagination is the beginning of creation.

Democracy means the organization of society for the benefit and at the expense of everybody indiscriminately and not for the benefit of a privileged class.

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

Literature is like any other trade; you will never sell anything unless you go to the right shop.

The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.