Love, while always forgiving of imperfections and mistakes, can never cease to will their removal.

We have lost the invaluable faculty of being shocked a faculty which has hitherto almost distinguished the Man or Woman from the beast or child.

What does not satisfy when we find it, was not the thing we were desiring.

When golden moments come, when God enables one really to pray without words, who but a fool would reject the gift?

Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.

The basic proposal of the new education is to be that dunces and idlers must not be made to feel inferior to intelligent and industrious pupils. That would be 'undemocratic.

The State exists simply to promote and to protect the ordinary happiness of human beings in this life. A husband and wife chatting over a fire, a couple of friends having a game of darts in a pub, a man reading a book in his own room or digging in his own garden-that is what the State is there for. And unless they are helping to increase and prolong and protect such moments, all the laws, parliaments, armies, courts, police, economics, etc., are simply a waste of time.