Plato was right, but not quite right.

A naked moon stood in a naked sky.

Where does a wise man kick a pebble? On the beach. Where does a wise man hide a leaf? In the forest.

Women have a thirst for order and beauty as for something physical; there is a strange female power of hating ugliness and waste as good men can only hate sin and bad men virtue.

The good Bishop of Assisi expressed a sort of horror at the hard life which the Little Brothers lived at the Portiuncula, without comforts, without possessions, eating anything they could get and sleeping anyhow on the ground. St. Francis answered him with that curious and almost stunning shrewdness which the unworldly can sometimes wield like a club of stone. He said, 'If we had any possessions, we should need weapons and laws to defend them.

No sceptical philosopher can ask any questions that may not equally be asked by a tired child on a hot afternoon.

A great curse has fallen upon modern life with the discovery of the vastness of the word Education.