Churches are wonderful and beautiful, and they are vehicles for religion, but no Church can have more than a very little of the truth.

Parents are untamed, excessive, potentially troublesome creatures; charming to be with for a time, in the main they must lead their own lives, independent and self-employed, with companions of their own age and selection.

what about Christianity? Are we right in the face of so long a record of its poverty in international achievement, to keep invoking it as a standard, almost synonymous with civilization?

miss my daily Mass, and have a superstitious feeling that anything may happen on the days I don't go. However, nothing in particular has.

Did you ever look through a microscope at a drop of pond water? You see plenty of love there. All the amoebae getting married. I presume they think it very exciting and important. We don't.

To be prejudiced is the privilege of the thinking human being. ... The open mind is the empty mind.

Why is humanity so excessive in the way it does things? The golden mean seems out of fashion.