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

I sing, not arms and the hero, but the philosophic man: he who seeks in contemplation to discover the inner will of the world, ininvention to discover the means of fulfilling that will, and in action to do that will by the so-discovered means.

No man manages his affairs as well as a tree does

To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer.

All young women begin by believing they can change and reform the men they marry. They can't.

Our prejudices are so deeply rooted that we never think of them as prejudices but call them common sense.

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.