Sleep is a hint of lovely oblivion.

How to begin to educate a child. First rule: leave him alone. Second rule: leave him alone. Third rule: leave him alone. That is the whole beginning.

I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter.

Nothing but love has made the dog lose his wild freedom, to become the servant of man.

He always ran away from the battle with himself. Even in his own heart's privacy, he excused himself, saying, "If she hadn't said so-and-so, it would never have happened.

I know the greatness of Christianity; it is a past greatness.. I live in 1924, and the Christian venture is done.

Anyone who is kind to man knows the fragmentariness of most men, and wants to arrange a society of power in which men fall naturally into a collective wholeness, since they cannot have an individual wholeness. In this collective wholeness they will be fulfilled. But if they make efforts at individual fulfilment, they must fail for they are by nature fragmentary.