But whenever one meets modern thinkers (as one often does) progressing toward a madhouse, one always finds, on inquiry, that they have just had a splendid escape from another madhouse. Thus, hundreds of people become Socialists, not because they have tried Socialism and found it nice, but because they have tried Individualism and found it particularly nasty.

There are no new ideas about female education.

War is not the best way of settling differences; it is the only way of preventing their being settled for you.

Christmas is built upon a beautiful and intentional paradox; that the birth of the homeless should be celebrated in every home.

The danger of loss of faith in God is not that one will believe in nothing, but rather that one will believe in anything.

If I did not believe in God, I should still want my doctor, my lawyer and my banker to do so.

The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.