The universe rings true whenever you fairly test it.

The worst attitude of all would be the professional attitude which regards children in the lump as a sort of raw material which we have to handle.

In Science we have been reading only the notes to a poem; in Christianity we find the poem itself.

I'd sooner live among people who don't cheat at cards than among people who are earnest about not cheating at cards.

Did I hate him, then? Indeed, I believe so. A love like that can grow to be nine-tenths hatred and still call itself love.

Once when I had remarked on the affection quite often found between cat and dog, my friend replied, "Yes. But I bet no dog would ever confess it to the other dogs.

All is summed up in the prayer which a young female human is said to have uttered recently: "O God, make me a normal twentieth-century girl!" Thanks to our labors, this will mean increasingly: "Make me a minx, a moron, and a parasite.