The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
A large section of the intelligentsia seems wholly devoid of intelligence.
Acceptance is the truest kinship with humanity.
Silence is the unbearable repartee.
Why be something to everybody when you can be everything to somebody?
Dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a drug and not as a drink.
Saint George he was for England, And before he killed the dragon he drank a pint of English ale out of an English flagon.
In Catholicism, the pint, the pipe and the Cross can all fit together.
Man is at his tallest when he bows.
When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.
The only words that ever satisfied me as describing nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment; they express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery.
Spring never is spring unless it comes too soon.
Men reform a thing by removing the reality from it, and then do not know what to do with the unreality that is left.
The power which makes a man able to entertain a good impulse is the same as that which enables him to make a good gun; it is imagination.
Mysticism keeps mankind sane. As long as you have mystery you have health; when you destroy mystery you create morbidity.
Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit.
The old religionist cried out for his god. The new religionist cries out for some god to be his.
The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is stupid.
Playing as children means playing is the most serious thing in the world.