It is the root of all religion that a man knows that he is nothing in order to thank God that he is something.

There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell.

The men of the clique live together because they have the same kind of soul, and their narrowness is a narrowness of spiritual coherence and contentment, like that which exists in hell . . .

For my part, I should be inclined to suggest that the chief object of education should be to restore simplicity. If you like to put it so, the chief object of education is not to learn things; nay, the chief object of education is to unlearn things.

Plato was only a Bernard Shaw who unfortunately made his jokes in Greek.

Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.

Every man who will not have softening of the heart must at last have softening of the brain