When we reverence anything in the mature, it is their virtues or their wisdom, and this is an easy matter. But we reverence the faults and follies of children. We should probably come considerably nearer to the true conception of things if we treated all grown-up persons, of all titles and types, with precisely that dark affection and dazed respect with which we treat the infantile limitations.

Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.

There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one.

Acceptance is the truest kinship with humanity.

The full value of this life can only be got by fighting; the violent take it by storm. And if we have accepted everything we have missed something - war. This life of ours is a very enjoyable fight, but a very miserable truce.

It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.

The people has no definite disbelief in the temples of theology. The people has a very fiery and practical disbelief in the temples of physical science.