Mental fire is what won't burn real sticks; mental water is what won't necessarily (though of course it may) put out even a mentalfire.

What a magnificent land and race is this Britain! Everything about them is of better quality than the corresponding thing in the U.S.... Yet I believe (or suspect) that ours is eventually the bigger destiny, if we can only succeed in living up to it.

The good we do today becomes the happiness of tomorrow.

So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.

The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.

We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.

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.