The world belongs to those who think and act with it, who keep a finger on its pulse.
Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater.
Beneath the dingy uniformity of international fashions in dress, man remains what he has always been; a splendid fighting animal, a self-sacrificing hero, and a blood thirsty savage.
Philosophy means thinking things out for oneself. Ultimately, there can be only one true philosophy, since reason is one and we all live in the same world.
Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.
A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit on it.
I have never understood why it should be considered derogatory to the Creator to suppose that he has a sense of humour.
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.
No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism.
The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he is born.
The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.
Nature takes away any faculty that is not used.
Action is the normal completion of the act of will which begins as prayer. That action is not always external, but it is always some kind of effective energy.
Faith is an act of rational choice, which determines us to act as if certain things were true, and in the confident expectation that they will prove to be true.
The jealous man is so preoccupied with what he hasn’t got that he fails to appreciate the value of what he has got. He loses the ability to feel glad because the sun is shining. He doesn’t see the wonder and the newness of the beginning of spring.
The vulgar mind always mistakes the exceptional for the important.
The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.
The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions, and would soon bring to an end all the static Utopias and the farmyard civilization of the Fabians.
True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values.
A man is never so truly and intensely himself as when he is most possessed by God. It is impossible to say where, in the spiritual life, the human will leaves off and divine grace begins.