Faith begins as an experiment, and ends as an experience.

Experience proves that none is so cruel as the disillusioned sentimentalist.

The strongest wish of a vast number of earnest men and women to-day is for a basis of religious belief which shall rest, not upon tradition or external authority or historical evidence, but upon the ascertainable facts of human experience. The craving for immediacy, which we have seen to be characteristic of all mysticism, now takes the form of a desire to establish the validity of the God-consciousness as a normal part of the healthy inner life.

Civilization is being poisoned by its own waste products.

Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater.

Deliberate cruelty to our defenceless and beautiful little cousins is surely one of the meanest and most detestable vices of which a human being can be guilty.

Patriotism varies, from a noble devotion to a moral lunacy.