The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel; its poverty by how little.

The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.

Originality is undetected plagiarism.

The church that is married to the spirit of this age, becomes a widow in the next.

The whole of nature, as has been said, is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and in the passive.

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.

No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism.