The drama may be called that part of theatrical art which lends itself most readily to intellectual discussion: what is left is theater.

A man must be obedient to the promptings of his innermost heart.

If you attack Stupidity you attack an entrenched interest with friends in government and every walk of public life.

The best among our writers are doing their accustomed work of mirroring what is deep in the spirit of our time; if chaos appears in those mirrors, we must have faith that in the future, as always in the past, that chaos will slowly reveal itself as a new aspect of order.

If you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.

I never heard of anyone who was really literate or who ever really loved books who wanted to suppress any of them. Censors only read a book with great difficulty, moving their lips as they puzzle out each syllable, when someone tells them that the book is unfit to read.

Did you know that Puritanism went hand in hand with dirt, that Oliver Cromwell put a 100 per cent tax on soap and that the repeal of the soap tax was one of the most popular acts of Charles II at his Restoration?