He regarded love as a sort of cruel malady through which the elect are required to pass in their late youth and from which they emerge, pale and wrung, but ready for the business of living.

I've never forgotten for long at a time that living is struggle. I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for - whether it's a field, or a home, or a country.

Man is not an end but a beginning. We are at the beginning of the second week. We are children of the eighth day

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

Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.

People are meant to go through life two by two. ’Tain’t natural to be lonesome.

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.'