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

There is something to be said for every error; but, whatever may be said for it, the most important thing to be said about it is that it is erroneous.

The truth is that it is our attitude towards children that is right, and our attitude towards grown-up people that is wrong.

The theory of free speech, that truth is so much larger and stranger and more many-sided than we know of, that it is very much better at all costs to hear everyone's account of it, is a theory which has been justified on the whole by experiment, but which remains a very daring and even a very surprising theory. It is really one of the great discoveries of the modern time.

A man will not roll in the snow for a stream of tendency by which all things fulfill the law of their being. He will not go without food in the name of something, not ourselves, that makes for righteousness. He will do things like this, or pretty nearly like this, under quite a different impulse. He will do these things when he is in love.

Mankind is not a tribe of animals to which we owe compassion. Mankind is a club to which we owe our subscription.

Classic literature is still something that hangs in the air like a song.