We lose our bearings entirely by speaking of the 'lower classes' when we mean humanity minus ourselves.

Oh, most unhappy man,' he cried, 'try to be happy! You have red hair like your sister.' My red hair, like red flames, shall burn up the world,' said Gregory.

That is the one eternal education: to be sure enough that something is true that you dare to tell it to a child.

I don't need a church to tell me I'm wrong where I already know I'm wrong; I need a Church to tell me I'm wrong where I think I'm right

Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.

Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty.

There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally.