The best bought-up children are those who have seen thier parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the first duty of a parent.

The conversion of a savage to Christianity is the conversion of Christianity to savagery.

I do not want actors and actresses to understand my plays. That is not necessary. If they will only pronounce the correct sounds I can guarantee the results.

I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like the state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

Security, the chief pretense of civilization, cannot exist where the worst of dangers, the danger of poverty, hangs over everyone's head.

Those who understand the steam engine and the electric telegraph spend their lives in trying to replace them with something better.