A saint is one who makes goodness attractive. Surely, a great teacher does the same thing for education.

A saint is one who makes goodness attractive.

If I live for another ten years I shall probably have written all that I want to write.

The modern form of things had begun to appeal to me, also (as material for satire) politics, and the lives of the great and little, high up in the social scale.

I believe absolutely in love being the central motive force of the universe.

If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in a family.

I was just then going through a healthy reaction from the orthodoxy of my youth; religion had become for me not so much a possession as an obsession, which I was trying to throw off, and this iconoclastic tale of an imaginary tribe was the result.