How much happier you would be, how much more of you there would be, if the hammer of a higher God could smash your small cosmos.

The reason that angels fly is that they take themselves so lightly.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.

When we look upon lives so human and yet so small, we feel as if we ourselves were enlarged to an embarrassing bigness of stature. We feel the same kind of obligation to these creatures that a deity might feel if he had created something that he could not understand.

Anyone who is not an anarchist agrees with having a policeman at the corner of the street; but the danger at present is that of finding the policeman half-way down the chimney or even under the bed.

The power which makes a man able to entertain a good impulse is the same as that which enables him to make a good gun; it is imagination.

One can no more have a private religion than one can have a private sun or a private moon.