Nothing is less instructive than a machine.

Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.

Workers need poetry more than bread. They need that their life should be a poem. They need some light from eternity. Religion alone can be the source of such poetry.

The future is made of the same stuff as the present.

God is rich in mercy. I know this wealth of his with the certainty of experience, I have touched it.

Money destroys human roots wherever it is able to penetrate, by turning desire for gain into the sole motive. It easily manages to outweigh all other motives, because the effort it demands of the mind is so very much less. Nothing is so clear and so simple as a row of figures.

Why is it that reality, when set down untransposed in a book, sounds false?