Heaven's my destination.

Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.

The theatre is supremely fitted to say: 'Behold! These things are.' Yet most dramatists employ it to say: 'This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action.'

I hold we cannot be said to be aware of our minds save under responsibility.

Comparisons of one's lot with others' teaches us nothing and enfeebles the will.

There are the stars--doing their old, old crisscross journeys in the sky. Scholars haven't settled the matter yet, but they seem to think there are no living beings out there. Just chalk... or fire. Only this one is straining away, straining away all the time to make something of itself. Strain's so bad that every sixteen hours everybody lies down and gets a rest.

Throughout the hours of the night, though there had been few to hear it, the whole sky had been loud with the singing of these constellations.