No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.

When one looks into the window of a store which sells devotional art objects, one can't help wishing the iconoclasts had won.

Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated, and the sciences depend upon their separation.

Unfortunately for the modern dramatist, during the past century and a half the public realm has been less and less of a realm where human deeds are done, and m…