The truth is that it is our attitude towards children that is right, and our attitude towards grown-up people that is wrong. Our attitude towards our equals in age consists in a servile solemnity, overlying a considerable degree of indifference or disdain. Our attitude towards children consists in a condescending indulgence, overlying an unfathomable respect.

We do not want, as the newspapers say, a church that will move with the world. We want a church that will move the world.

Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.

Men rush towards complexity, but they yearn towards simplicity. They try to be kings; but they dream of being shepherds.

People that insist upon drinking and driving, are putting the quart before the hearse.

Theology is only thought applied to religion.

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.