Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not.
The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he is born.
It was said that Mr. Gladstone could persuade most people of most things, and himself of anything.
A cat can be trusted to purr when she is pleased, which is more than can be said for human beings.
A nation is a society united by delusions about its ancestry and by a common hatred of its neighbors.
Man, as we know him, is a poor creature; he is halfway between an ape and a god and he is travelling in the right direction.
Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God; if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which it cannot remove.
Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them.
Bereavement is the deepest initiation into the mysteries of human life, an initiation more searching and profound than even happy love.
All faith consists essentially in the recognition of a world of spiritual values behind, yet not apart from, the world of natural phenomena.