The hallway of every man's life is paced with pictures; pictures
gay and pictures gloomy, all useful, for if we be wise, we can learn from them a
richer and braver way to live.
Laughter is wine for the soul -- laugh soft, or loud and deep,
tinged through with seriousness. Comedy and tragedy step through life together,
arm in arm... Once we can laugh, we can live.
You cannot put a rope around the neck of an idea; you cannot put
an idea up against the barrack-square wall and riddle it with bullets; you
cannot confine it in the strongest prison cell your slaves could ever build.
Wealth often takes away chances from men as well as poverty. There
is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that
hallows and hollows his own life.
[W]ith whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him,
with the sun gone down and with only the serenity and the calm warning of the
evening star left to him, he drank to Life, to all it had been, to what it was,
to what it would be. Hurrah!
The drama's altar isn't on the stage: it is candle-sticked and flowered in the box office. There is the gold, though there
be no frankincense or myrrh; and the gospel for the day always The Play will Run
for a Year. The Dove of Inspiration, of the desire for inspiration, has flown
away from it; and on it's roof, now, the commonplace crow caws candidly.
