I shall not die young, for I am already near seventy: I may die old.

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.

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

A saint is one who makes goodness attractive.

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

It is right and natural that generous minds while in the twenties should think the books which try to reform the world's wrong the greatest of all.

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