Obedience is the road to freedom.

Vanity is really the least bad and most pardonable sort. The vain person wants praise, applause, admiration too much and is always angling for it. It is a fault, but a childlike and even (in an odd way) a humble fault. It shows that you are not yet completely contented with your own admiration. You value other people enough to want them to look at you. You are in fact still human.

We have not long to live in any event. Let us spend what is left in seeking the unpeopled world behind the sunrise.

You weren't a decent man and you didn't do your best. We none of us were and none of us did.

Men became scientific because they expected Law in Nature, and they expected Law in Nature because they believed in a Law Giver.

We must meet children as equals in that area of our nature where we are their equals...The child as reader is neither to be patronized nor idolized: we talk to him as man to man.

The true enjoyments must be spontaneous and compulsive and look to no remoter end.