If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.
The families of our friends are always a disappointment.
No one can expect a majority to be stirred by motives other than ignoble.
It is one of the maladies of our age to profess a frenzied allegiance to truth in unimportant matters, to refuse consistently to face her where graver issues are at stake.
The secret of happiness is curiosity
He talks about the Scylla of Atheism and the Charybdis of Christianity - a state of mind which, by the way, is not conducive to bold navigation.