The grinding power of the plain words of the Gospel story is like the power of mill-stones, and those who can read them simply enough will feel as if rocks had been rolled upon them.

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.

Fairy tales do not give the child his first idea of bogey. What fairy tales give the child is his first clear idea of the possible defeat of bogey. The baby has known the dragon intimately ever since he had an imagination. What the fairy tale provides for him is a St. George to kill the dragon.

Is ditchwater dull? Naturalists with microscopes have told me that it teems with quiet fun.

All real democracy is an attempt like that of a jolly hostess to bring the shy people out.

The modern materialists are not permitted to doubt; they are forbidden to believe.