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.

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

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.

A perfect God is the creation of a conceited man

Reality is a narrow little house which becomes a prison to those who can't get out of it.

It was as dark as the inside of a cabinet minister.

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.