Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.

When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery ... He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift.... There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.

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.

There is no drunkenness equal to that of remembering whispered words in the night.

A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any comment that can be made upon it.

How do you know what the world is like? Do you know the world is a foul sty? Do you know if you rip the fronts off houses you'd find swine? The world's a hell. What does it matter what happens in it?

I am my own judge of what truths I shall tell. The truth can do just as much harm as a lie.