Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning.

You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you have lost something.

A child hasn't a grown-up person's appetite for affection. A little of it goes a long way with them; and they like a good imitation of it better than the real thing, as every nurse knows.

The churches must learn humility as well as teach it.

People get nothing out of books but what they bring to them

What is wrong with priests and popes is that instead of being apostles and saints, they are nothing but empirics who say "I know" instead of "I am learning," and pray for credulity and inertia as wise men pray for skepticism and activity.