Primitive societies without religion have never been found.

By beauty of course I mean truth, for the one involves the other; it is only the false in art which is ugly, and it is only the ugly that is universal.

The wars come and go in blood and tears; but whether they are bad wars, or what are comically called good wars, they are of one effect in death and sorrow.

What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.

A man never sees all that his mother has been to him until it's too late to let her know that he sees it.

In Europe life is histrionic and dramatized, and in America, except when it is trying to be European, it is direct and sincere.

Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart.