The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.

Beware of the conversationalist who adds "in other words." He is merely starting afresh.

God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five Days.

In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.

We call a child's mind 'small' simply by habit; perhaps it is larger than ours is, for it can take in almost anything without effort.

Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.

My prayer is that what we have gone through [World War One] will startle the world into some new realization of the sanctity of life, animal as well as human.