The cause which is blocking all progress today is the subtle scepticism which whispers in a million ears that things are not good enough to be worth improving. If the world is good we are revolutionaries, if the world is evil we must be conservatives. These essays, futile as they are considered as serious literature, are yet ethically sincere, since they seek to remind men that things must be loved first and improved afterwards.

The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.

In our time the blasphemies are threadbare. Pessimism is now patently, as it always was essentially, more commonplace than piety. Profanity is now more than an…

Among the rich you will never find a really generous man even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away; they are e…

I have seen the future, and it looks a lot like the present.

'Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants a…

Each generation's job is to question what parents accept on faith, to explore possibilities, and adapt the last generation's system of values for a new age.