Nature takes away any faculty that is not used.

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

The church is only a secular institution in which the half-educated speak to the half-converted.

Admiration for ourselves and our institutions is too often measured by our contempt and dislike for foreigners.

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

Christianity promises to make men free; it never promises to make them independent.

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