But do you know why you have it ?" "I daresay that question is difficult to answer.

I often seek for my reasons, Addison, and I find many, though I can hardly say which is the best, or whether any quite explains the faith that is always in me.
_Apropos_ of this evening, by the bye, I long ago found one of my reasons in the theatre, the theatre which some really good men hate and condemn." "What was that ?" "Oh, a very simple one.

I believe that men in the mass express eternal truths more readily, more certainly, than men as individuals.

Put a lot of bad men, or--we won't call them bad, why should we ?--loose, careless, thoughtless men, together in the pit of a theatre.

Many of them, perhaps, drink, and are rendered cruel by drink.