Where can one find a profounder desolation than in the poor child who has lost its mother?

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.

For the essential thing about the work of art is that it is work, and very hard work too.

Where can one find a profounder desolation than in the poor child who has lost its mother?

No doubt any connoisseur, any collector, some bored old millionaire when he shows off his treasures, is seeking in your praise the resurrection and the life.

The will is never free - it is always attached to an object, a purpose. It is simply the engine in the car - it can't steer

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