That's what this country needs -- more books!

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.

Be prepared for truth at all hours and in the most fantastic disguises. This is the only safety.

Religion is an attempt, a noble attempt, to suggest in human terms more-than-human realities.

The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.

I had a million questions to ask God: but when I met Him, they all fled my mind; and it didn't seem to matter.

Truth is what every man sees lurking at the bottom of his own soul, like the oyster shell housewives put in the kitchen kettle to collect the lime from the water. By and by each man's iridescent oyster shell of Truth becomes coated with the lime of prejudice and hearsay.