Precisely because we cannot predict the moment, we must be ready at all moments.

That fierce imprisonment in the self is but the obverse of the self-giving which is absolute reality.

Of all bad men religious bad men are the worst.

God has paid us the intolerable compliment of loving us, in the deepest, most tragic, most inexorable sense.

I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare.

Grief. The pain now is part of the happiness then. That's the deal.

Democracy demands that little men should not take big ones too seriously; it dies when it is full of little men who think they are big themselves.