It is the tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know - and the less a man knows, the more sure he is that he knows everything.

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.

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

What is it in the actor, the stage, that casts so powerful a spell on the young imagination?

Life would die without poets, and democracy must have its spellbinders.

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

It is the tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know - and the less a man knows, the more sure he is that he knows everything.