Silver is sometimes more valuable than gold, that is, in large quantities.

I need not pause to explain that crime is not a disease. It is criminology that is a disease.

We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed

The most unfathomable schools and sages have never attained to the gravity which dwells in the eyes of a baby of three months old. It is the gravity of astonishment at the universe, and astonishment at the universe is not mysticism, but a transcendent common-sense. The fascination of children lies in this: that with each of them all things are remade, and the universe is put again upon its trial.

There are two ways of getting home; and one of them is to stay there.

Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit.

When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.