To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.

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

The right use of leisure is no doubt a harder problem than the right use of our working hours. The soul is dyed the color of its leisure thoughts.

Every institution not only carries within it the seeds of its own dissolution, but prepares the way for its most hated rival.

It is quite natural and inevitable that, if we spend sixteen hours daily of our waking lives in thinking about the affairs of the world and five minutes in thinking about God and our souls, this world will seem two hundred times more real to us than God.

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

Bereavement is the deepest initiation into the mysteries of human life, an initiation more searching and profound than even happy love.