I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba, and cry, 'Tis all barren--and so it is; and so is all the world to him who will not cultivate the fruits it offers.

You can't make theater happen without actors. The actor is the central ingredient in making theater happen. Audiences may come to theaters to see the work of stage managers, directors and producers, but the only people who can communicate theater magic to audiences, through ideas and emotions, are the actors. They are the only ones who can communicate this by themselves, and if necessary, they can get along without you. But you can't make theater without the actor.

The chaste mind, like a polished plane, may admit foul thoughts, without receiving their tincture.

When the precipitancy of a man's wishes hurries on his ideas ninety times faster than the vehicle he rides in--woe be to truth!

Religion which lays so many restraints upon us, is a troublesome companion to those who will lay no restraints upon themselves.

Heat is in proportion to the want of true knowledge.

My father, whose way was to force every event in nature into an hypothesis, by which means never man crucified TRUTH at the rate he did.