The merely well-informed man is the most useless bore on God's earth.

From the moment of birth we are immersed in action, and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought.

I consider Christian theology to be one of the great disasters of the human race.

It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression.

In all education the main cause of failure is staleness.

A clash of doctrine is not a disaster, it is an opportunity.

No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it.