A play visibly represents pure existing.

But soon we shall die and all memory of those five will have left the earth, and we ourselves shall be loved for a while and forgotten. But the love will have been enough; all those impulses of love return to the love that made them. Even memory is not necessary for love. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.

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

Those who are silent, self-effacing and attentive become the recipients of confidences.

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

People a thousand years from now - this is the way we were in the provinces north of New York at the beginning of the 20th century. This is the way we were: in our growing up and in our marrying and in our living and in our living and in our dying.

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