Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.

Circumstances break men's bones; it has never been shown that they break men's optimism.

The only words that ever satisfied me as describing nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment; they express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery.

The real trouble with this world of ours is not that it is an unreasonable one. The trouble is that it is nearly reasonable, but not quite.

The position we have now reached is this: starting from the State, we try to remedy the failures of all the families, all the nurseries, all the schools, all the workshops, all the secondary institutions that once had some authority of their own. Everything is ultimately brought into the Law Courts. We are trying to stop the leak at the other end.

It is the root of all religion that a man knows that he is nothing in order to thank God that he is something.

Though I believe in liberalism, I find it difficult to believe in liberals.