I have come to believe ... that the stage may do more than teach, that much of our current moral instruction will not endure the test of being cast into a lifelike mold, and when presented in dramatic form will reveal itself as platitudinous and effete. That which may have sounded like righteous teaching when it was remote and wordy, will be challenged afresh when it is obliged to simulate life itself.

... social advance depends quite as much upon an increase in moral sensibility as it does upon a sense of duty ...

If the underdog were always right, one might quite easily try to defend him. The trouble is that very often he is but obscurely right, sometimes only partially…

Private beneficence is totally inadequate to deal with the vast numbers of the city's disinherited.

There are three lessons I would write, Three words as with a burning pen, In tracings of eternal light Upon the hearts of men.

If we mean our future guardians to regard the habit of quarrelling among themselves as of all things the basest, should any word be said to them of the wars in…

There is no real teacher who in practise does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech.