Our prayers for others flow more easily than those for ourselves. This shows we are made to live by charity.

Total war is the most humane in the long run.

In Science we have been reading only the notes to a poem; in Christianity we find the poem itself.

At other times it feels like being mildly drunk, or concussed. There is a sort of invisible blanket between the world and me. I find it hard to take in what anyone says.

You can’t get second things by putting them first. You get second things only by putting first things first.

I gave in, and admitted that God was God.

The best swordsman in the world may be disarmed by a trick that's new to him.