“Her religious beliefs went first, for all she could ask of a god, or of immortality, was the gift of a place… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
The revival in religion will be a rhetorical problem - new persuasive words for defaced or degraded ones. — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
“Let us at least say of religion that it means that every part of the body is infused with mind, not that… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous. — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
The comic spirit is given to us in order that we may analyze, weigh, and clarify things in us which nettle us,… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
“Most of all, however, these observances attack and undermine the very spirit of life within the minds of men. They afford to… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
“This assumption that she need look for no more devotion now that her beauty had passed proceeded from the fact that she… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
“He respected the slight nervous shadow that crossed her face when he came too near her. But there arose out of this denial itself… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home. — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
“Simon Stimson: "...That's what it was to be alive. To move about in a cloud of ignorance; to go up and down trampling on… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
“Love as education is one of the great powers of the world, but it hangs in a delicate suspension; it achieves its harmony as… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
Many great writers have been extraordinarily awkward in daily exchange, but the greatest give the impression that their style was nursed by the closest… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
A man looks pretty small at a wedding, George. All those good women standing shoulder to shoulder, making sure that the knot's tied in… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
The knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a tide acts upon cliffs. — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
“But while they continued staring into one another’s face waiting for the miracle of science the pain grew worse.” — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday. — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
“Cesar is not a philosophical man. His life has been one long flight from reflection. At least he is clever enough not to expose… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
Every person who has ever lived has lived an unbroken succession of unique occasions. — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
