To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church

I still hold. . .that the suburbs ought to be either glorified by romance and religion or else destroyed by fire from heaven, or even by firebrands from the earth.

Poetry is sane because it floats easily in an infinite sea; reason seeks to cross the infinite sea and so make it finite. The result is mental exhaustion. To accept everything is an exercise, to understand everything a strain.

Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.

The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.

Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.