Reality is a narrow little house which becomes a prison to those who can't get out of it.

No one can estimate the power of authority among poor and uneducated people in a world whose problems confuse even the wisest.

A friend of mine tells me that a Beethoven symphony can solve for him a problem of conduct. I've no doubt that it does so simply by giving him a sense of the tragedy and the greatness of human destiny, which makes his personal anxieties seem small, which throws them into a new proportion.

The fear of hell, the punishment of sin, how the modern parent revolts from such teaching. Yet I will assert that far from doing us children harm, it was a sure foundation to the world of our confidence, a master girder in our palace of delight.

The only good government... Is a bad one in a hell of a fright.

God is a character, a real and consistent being, or He is nothing. If God did a miracle He would deny His own nature and the universe would simply blow up, vanish, become nothing.

The most effective teacher will always be biased, for the chief force in teaching is confidence and enthusiasm.