When the Greeks said, Whom the gods love die young, they probably meant, as Lord Sankey suggested, that those favored by the gods stay young till the day they die; young and playful.

Even in slight things the experience of the new is rarely without some stirring of foreboding.

Children, savages and true believers remember far less what they have seen than what they have heard.

Where everything is possible miracles become commonplaces, but the familiar ceases to be self-evident.

Man's chief goal in life is still to become and stay human, and defend his achievements against the encroachment of nature.

Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.

The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly free from a sense of futility