I dread specialists in power because they are specialists speaking outside of their special subject.

A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.

Ideally, we should like to define a good book as one which 'permits, invites, or compels' good reading

For every one pupil who needs to be guarded against a weak excess of sensibility there are three who need to be awakened from the slumber of cold vulgarity. The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts.

Since I am I, I must make an act of self-surrender, however small or however easy, in living to God rather than to my self.

This must be a simply enormous wardrobe!