One can no more have a private religion than one can have a private sun or a private moon.

Christian Science … is the direct denial both of science and of Christianity, for Science rests wholly on the recognition of truth and Christianity on the recognition of pain.

A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

Fairy tales are more than true.

The modern world... has no notion except that of simplifying something by destroying nearly everything.

The comedy of man survives the tragedy of man.

A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.