In order to fully realize how bad a popular play can be, it is necessary to see it twice.

Civilization is a disease produced by the practice of building societies with rotten material.

O Lord! I don't know which is the worst of the country, the walking or the sitting at home with nothing to do.

I do not, like the Fundamentalists, believe that creation stopped six thousand years ago after a week of hard work. Creation is going on all the time.

This is the true joy in life: Being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it what I can. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

A great social reformer.

Two people getting together to write a book is like three people getting together to have a baby. One of them is superfluous.