But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.

A feminist is someone who loathes being a woman and who dislikes the chief feminine characteristics.

Such professions as the soldier and the lawyer ... give ample opportunity for crimes but not much for mere illusions. ... If you have lost a battle you cannot believe you have won it; if your client is hanged you cannot pretend that you have gotten him off.

What is education? Properly speaking, there is no such thing as education. Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another. Whatever the soul is like, it will have to be passed on somehow, consciously or unconsciously, and that transition may be called education. ... What we need is to have a culture before we hand it down. In other words, it is a truth, however sad and strange, that we cannot give what we have not got, and cannot teach to other people what we do not know ourselves.

The old religionist cried out for his god. The new religionist cries out for some god to be his.

There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.

The great saint may be said to mix all his thoughts with thanks. All goods look better when they look like gifts.