Because our expression is imperfect we need friendship to fill up the imperfections.

Life is indeed terribly complicated—to a man who has lost his principles.

These are the things which might conceivably and truly make men forgive their enemies. We can only turn hate to love by understanding what are the things that men have loved; nor is it necessary to ask men to hate their loves in order to love one another. Just as two grocers are most likely to be reconciled when they remember for a moment that they are two fathers, so two nationals are most likely to be reconciled when they remember (if only for a moment) that they are two patriots.

I left the fairy tales lying on the floor of the nursery, and I have not found any books so sensible since.

Students of popular science... are always insisting that Christianity and Buddhism are very much alike, especially Buddhism. This is generally believed, and I believed it myself until I read a book giving the reasons for it.

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

Facts by themselves can often feed the flame of madness, because sanity is a spirit.