Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.

So shall I join the choir invisible Whose music is the gladness of the world.

For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities - a willing movement of a man's soul with the larger sweep of the world's forces - a movement towards a more assured end than the chances of a single life.

But what we strive to gratify, though we may call it a distant hope, is an immediate desire; the future estate for which men drudge up city alleys exists already in their imagination and love.

Subtract from the New Testament the miraculous and highly impossible, and what will be the remainder?

Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.

Go forward with joyful confidence.