Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

Christianity satisfies suddenly and perfectly man's ancestral instinct for being the right way up; satisfies it supremely in this, that by its creed Joy becomes something gigantic, and Sadness something special and small.

Any one of the strange laws we suffer is a compromise between a fad and a vested interest.

The more we are certain what good is, the more we shall see good in everything.

We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.

And all over the world, the old literature, the popular literature, is the same. It consists of very dignified sorrow and very undignified fun. Its sad tales are of broken hearts; its happy tales are of broken heads.

Nothing can ever overcome that one enormous sex (female) superiority that even the male child is born closer to his mother than to his father.