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.

Primitive societies without religion have never been found.

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

We are creatures of the moment; we live from one little space to another, and only one interest at a time fills these.

A friend knows how to allow for mere quantity in your talk, and only replies to the quality.

If we like a man's dream, we call him a reformer; if we don't like his dream, we call him a crank.

I wonder why we hate the past so.