I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.

A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it.

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

When our first parents were driven out of Paradise, Adam is believed to have remarked to Eve, "My dear, we live in an age of transition."

Our test is infallible. Whatever view of reality deepens our sense of the tremendous issues of life in the world wherein we move, is for us nearer the truth than any view which diminishes that sense.

Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.

Each generation takes a special pleasure in removing the household gods of its parents from their pedestals, and consigning them to the cupboard.