The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.

Every one on this earth should believe, amid whatever madness or moral failure, that his life and temperament have some object on the earth. Every one on the earth should believe that he has something to give to the world which cannot otherwise be given.

All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.

In truth, there are only two kinds of people; those who accept dogma and know it, and those who accept dogma and don't know it.

Family is the theatre of the spiritual drama, the place where things happen, especially the things that matter.

For my part, I should be inclined to suggest that the chief object of education should be to restore simplicity. If you like to put it so, the chief object of education is not to learn things; nay, the chief object of education is to unlearn things.

A third-class carriage is a community, while a first-class carriage is a place of wild hermits.