If one could run without getting tired I don't think one would often want to do anything else.

If the parents in each generation always or often knew what really goes on at their sons' schools, the history of education would be very different.

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.

Prosperity knits a man to the world. He feels that he is finding his place in it, while really it is finding its place in him.

I didn’t go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of Port would do that. If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don’t recommend Christianity.

I think God wants us to love Him more, not to love others less.

The great thing with unhappy times is to take them bit by bit, hour by hour, like an illness. It is seldom the present, the exact present, that is unbearable.