If the apple hit Newton’s nose, Newton’s nose hit the apple.

Dear Sir: Regarding your article 'What's Wrong with the World?' I am. Yours truly.

The good Bishop of Assisi expressed a sort of horror at the hard life which the Little Brothers lived at the Portiuncula, without comforts, without possessions, eating anything they could get and sleeping anyhow on the ground. St. Francis answered him with that curious and almost stunning shrewdness which the unworldly can sometimes wield like a club of stone. He said, 'If we had any possessions, we should need weapons and laws to defend them.

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

Modern man is educated to understand foreign languages and misunderstand foreigners.

A man cannot deserve adventures; he cannot earn dragons and hippogriffs.

I like the Americans for a great many reasons. I like them because even the modern thing called industrialism has not entirely destroyed in them the very ancient thing called democracy. I like them because they have a respect for work which really curbs the human tendency to snobbishness.