I still think that if the human race, or even one nation, could only get right about its God the rest would follow.

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

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

A saint is one who makes goodness attractive.

For the last half of my life I have had the doubtful benefit of a brother whose literary reputation is much greater than my own.

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.

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.