For I had often said that the best argument I knew for an immortal life was the existence of a man who deserved one as well as Child did.

The lunatic's visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact. Our civilization is founded on the shambles, and every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.

Ingenuity in meeting and pursuing the pupil, that tact for the concrete situation, though they are the alpha and omega of the teacher's art, are things to which psychology cannot help us in the least.

Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.

In modern eyes, precious though wars may be they must not be waged solely for the sake of the ideal harvest. Only when forced upon one, is a war now thought permissible.

We are mere bundles of habits.

Religion must be considered vindicated in a certain way from the attacks of her critics.