The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.

The objection to fairy stories is that they tell children there are dragons. But children have always known there are dragons. Fairy stories tell children that dragons can be killed.

When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.

Any one thinking of the Holy Child as born in December would mean by it exactly what we mean by it; that Christ is not merely a summer sun of the prosperous but a winter fire for the unfortunate.

Lord! what a strange world in which a man cannot remain unique even by taking the trouble to go mad!

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

Every man is important if he loses his life;and every man is funny if he loses his hat and has to run after it.