Of all things I find most unbearable is the injustice of one generation to another.

To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius.

I had come at last and my heart was beating again strongly to a heart that could not know despair because it forgot itself in the duty of its love.

It is sometimes said that toleration should be refused to the intolerant. In practice this would destroy it... The only remedy for dogmatism and lies is toleration and the greatest possible liberty of expression.

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.

An old mans memories, like his bones, grow sharp with age and show their true shapes.

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