...It's natural to believe in the supernatural. It never feels natural to accept only natural things.

The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.

You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the world.

Americans have a taste for…rocking-chairs. A flippant critic might suggest that they select rocking-chairs so that, even when they are sitting down, they need not be sitting still. Something of this restlessness in the race may really be involved in the matter; but I think the deeper significance of the rocking-chair may still be found in the deeper symbolism of the rocking-horse. I think there is behind all this fresh and facile use of wood a certain spirit that is childish in the good sense of the word; something that is innocent, and easily pleased.

A great classic means a man whom one can praise without having read.

In the glad old days, before the rise of modern morbidities...it used to be thought a disadvantage to be misunderstood.

A strange fanaticism fills our time: the fanatical hatred of morality, especially of Christian morality.