The only words that ever satisfied me as describing nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment; they express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery.

If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.

A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.

There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.

Joy, which was the small publicity of the pagan, is the gigantic secret of the Christian.

We all feel the riddle of the earth without anyone to point it out. The mystery of life is the plainest part of it. The clouds and curtains of darkness, the confounding vapors, these are the daily weather of this world.

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