The love of knowledge is a kind of madness.

A sum can be put right: but only by going back till you find the error and working it afresh from that point, never by simply going on.

Hitherto the plans of the educationalists have achieved very little of what they attempted, and indeed we may well thank the beneficent obstinacy of real mothers, real nurses, and (above all) real children for preserving the human race in such sanity as it still possesses.

It is because they have no Oyarsa,' said one of the pupils. It is because everyone of them wants to be a little Oyarsa himself,' said Augray.

Adventures are never fun while you're having them.

Man approaches God most nearly when he is in one sense least like God. For what can be more unlike than fullness and need, sovereignty and humility, righteousness and penitence, limitless power and a cry for help?

If you are really a product of a materialistic universe, how is it that you don't feel at home there?