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.

The Moral Law tells us the tune we have to play: our instincts are merely the keys.

If there ever was a time that nothing existed, then nothing would exist now

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.

To be religious is to have one's attention fixed on God and on one's neighbour in relation to God.

Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.

Poetry too is a little incarnation, giving body to what had been before invisible and inaudible.