The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure.

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

The great dramatist has something better to do than to amuse either himself or his audience. He has to interpret life.

Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.

The practical question, then, is what to do with the children. Tolerate them at home we will not. Let them run loose in the streets we dare not until our streets become safe places for children, which, to our utter shame, they are not at present, though they can hardly be worse than some homes and some schools.

Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak! Bury a sheep, and nothing happens but decay.

The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.