When belief in God becomes difficult, the tendency is to turn away from Him; but in heaven's name to what?

Leaving the complications of the human breakfast-table out of account, in an elemental sense, the egg only exists to produce the chicken. But the chicken does not exist only in order to produce another egg. He may also exist to amuse himself, to praise God, and even to suggest ideas to a French dramatist. Being a conscious life, he is, or may be, valuable in himself.

Modern nature-worship is all upside down. Trees and fields ought to be the ordinary things; terraces and temples ought to be extraordinary. I am on the side of the man who lives in the country and wants to go to London.

A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong that he feels more.

Dogma is actually the only thing that cannot be separated from education. It IS education. A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching. There are no uneducated people; only most people are educated wrong. The true task of culture today is not a task of expansion, but of selection-and-rejection. The educationist must find a creed and teach it.

When a politician is in opposition he is an expert on the means to some end; and when he is in office he is an expert on the obstacles to it.

If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.