Boyhood is a most complex and incomprehensible thing. Even when one has been through it, one does not understand what it was. A man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been the boy.

Students of popular science... are always insisting that Christianity and Buddhism are very much alike, especially Buddhism. This is generally believed, and I believed it myself until I read a book giving the reasons for it.

I always like a dog so long as he isn't spelled backward.

If there is one thing worse than the modern weakening of major morals, it is the modern strengthening of minor morals.

The full potentialities of human fury cannot be reached until a friend of both parties tactfully intervenes.

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.

Religious unity can look like a carnival and religious liberty can look like a funeral.