There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable.

A great man knows he is not God, and the greater he is the better he knows it.

The grinding power of the plain words of the Gospel story is like the power of mill-stones, and those who can read them simply enough will feel as if rocks had been rolled upon them.

The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in.

I would rather a boy learnt in the roughest school the courage to hit a politician, or gained in the hardest school the learning to refute him - rather than that he should gain in the most enlightened school the cunning to copy him.

Why be something to everybody when you can be everything to somebody?

One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.