We learn as much from sorrow as from joy, as much from illness as from health, from handicap as from advantage and indeed perhaps more.

We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

When hope is taken away from a people, moral degeneration follows swiftly thereafter.

An Englishman is never afraid of being laughed at. He just thinks the other fellow is a fool. But Americans still can't risk anybody laughing at them.

Religion was their meat and their excitement, their mental food and their emotional pleasure.

When we define democracy now it must still be as a thing hoped for but not seen.

I do not believe in a child world. It is a fantasy world. I believe the child should be taught from the very first that the whole world is his world, that adult and child share one world, that all generations are needed.