If there were no God, there would be no atheists.

Half a truth is better than no politics.

The diseased pride [of artistic individualists] was not even conscious of a public interest, and would have found all political terms utterly tasteless and insignificant. It was no longer a question of one man one vote, but of one man one universe.

Do not look at the faces in the illustrated papers. Look at the faces in the street.

These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.

The books that influence the world are those that it has not read.

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.