The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present.

The only people who seem to have nothing to do with the education of the children are the parents.

No man should leave in the universe anything of which he is afraid.

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.

Not only does "orthodox" no longer mean being right, it practically means being wrong.

And Noah he often said to his wife when he sat down to dine, "I don't care where the water goes if it doesn't get into the wine."

As an explanation of the world materialism has a sort of insane simplicity. It has the quality of a madman's arguments; we have at once the sense of it covering everything and the sense of it leaving everything out.