So many things--nay every real thing--is good if only it will be humble and ordinate.

if you do one good deed your reward usually is to be set to do another and harder and better one.

and a charge of lying against someone whom you have always found truthful is a very serious thing; a very serious thing indeed.

Children have one kind of silliness, as you know, and grown-ups have another kind.

Naturally, since I myself am a writer, I do not wish the ordinary reader to read no modern books. But if he must read only the new or only the old, I would advise him to read the old.

If you have a religion it must be cosmic.

According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride.