One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.

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.

[Capitalism is] that commercial system in which supply immediately answers to demand, and in which everybody seems to be thoroughly dissatisfied and unable to get anything he wants.

Nothing can ever overcome that one enormous sex (female) superiority that even the male child is born closer to his mother than to his father.

By experts in poverty I do not mean sociologists, but poor men.

It has always been one of my unclerical sermons to myself, that that remark which Peter made on seeing the vision of a single hour, ought to be made by us all, in contemplating every panoramic change in the long Vision we call life... "It is good for us to be here - it is good for us to be here", repeating itself eternally.

When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.