The real pleasure-seeking is the combination of luxury and austerity in such a way that the luxury can really be felt.

Fairy tales are more than true.

The great misfortune of the modern English is not at all that they are more boastful than other people (they are not); it is that they are boastful about those particular things which nobody can boast of without losing them.

There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.

Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.

Real development is not leaving things behind, as on a road, but drawing life from them, as from a root.

There is no such thing as education. The thing is merely a loose phrase for the passing on to others of whatever truth or virtue we happen to have ourselves. It is typical of our time that the more doubtful we are about the value of philosophy, the more certain we are about the value of education. That is to say, the more doubtful we are about whether we have any truth, the more certain we are (apparently) that we can teach it to our children.