The monstrosity of sexual intercourse outside marriage is that those who indulge in it are trying to isolate one kind of union (the sexual) from all the other kinds of union which were intended to go along with it and make up the total union.

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.

You can do more with a castle in a story than with the best cardboard castle that ever stood on a nursery table.

We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.

Who will take medicine unless he knows he is in the grip of disease?

Unless Christianity is wholly false, the perception of ourselves which we have in moments of shame must be the only true one.

Surely what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is.