Deliberate cruelty to our defenceless and beautiful little cousins is surely one of the meanest and most detestable vices of which a human being can be guilty.

Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.

Boredom is a certain sign that we are allowing our faculties to rust in idleness.

All faith consists essentially in the recognition of a world of spiritual values behind, yet not apart from, the world of natural phenomena.

Religion is caught, not taught.

Civilization is being poisoned by its own waste products.

Faith always contains an element of risk, of venture; and we are impelled to make the venture by the affinity and attraction which we feel in ourselves.