I had never thought of myself as a dramatist, and, for really good technical results, the thought came too late: a man of letters has become too wordy to write economically for the stage.

If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in a family.

I believe absolutely in love being the central motive force of the universe.

A saint is one who makes goodness attractive. Surely, a great teacher does the same thing for education.

My failure, during the first five or six years of my art training, to get set in the right direction, and the disappointment which it caused me, drove me the more persistently into writing as an alternative.

I still think that if the human race, or even one nation, could only get right about its God the rest would follow.

If fathers were to be mothers, then there will never have a family of more than three.