Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul -- politics does the same thing for the body.

The fear of hell, the punishment of sin, how the modern parent revolts from such teaching. Yet I will assert that far from doing us children harm, it was a sure foundation to the world of our confidence, a master girder in our palace of delight.

Throughout the play everything possible was done to show the virtue, innocence and helplessness of the poor, and the abandoned cruelty, the heartless self-indulgence of the rich.

God is a character, a real and consistent being, or He is nothing. If God did a miracle He would deny His own nature and the universe would simply blow up, vanish, become nothing.

All art is bad, but modern art is the worst.

The only good government... Is a bad one in a hell of a fright.

Love doesn't grow on trees like apples in Eden - it's something you have to make. And you must use your imagination too.