Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater.
It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.
Many people believe that they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man.
Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.
To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.
A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.
Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.
True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values.
The enemies of freedom do not argue they shout and they shoot.