Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .

The believers in miracles accept them (rightly or wrongly) because they have evidence for them. The disbelievers in miracles deny them (rightly or wrongly) because they have a doctrine against them.

Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.

What was wonderful about childhood is that anything in it was a wonder. It was not merely a world full of miracles; it was a miraculous world.

There is a corollary to the conception of being too proud to fight. It is that the humble have to do most of the fighting.

The poetry of art is in beholding the single tower; the poetry of nature in seeing the single tree; the poetry of love in following the single woman; the poetry of religion in worshipping the single star.

What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but absence of self-criticism.