If each side had been frankly contending for its own real wish, they would all have kept within the bounds of reason and courtesy; but just because the contention is reversed and each side is fighting the other side’s battle, all the bitterness which really flows from thwarted self-righteousness and obstinacy and from the accumulated grudges of the last ten years is concealed from them by the nominal or official "Unselfishness" of what they are doing or, at least, held to be excused by it.

It is not enough to want to get rid of one’s sins, we also need to believe in the One who saves us from our sins.

The greatest evil is not done in those sordid dens of evil that Dickens loved to paint ... but is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clear, carpeted, warmed, well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices.

The happiness which God designs for his higher creatures is the happiness of being freely, voluntarily united to him.

Of course language is not an infallible guide, but it contains, with all its defects, a good deal of stored insight and experience.

Surely arrested development consists not in refusing to lose old things but in failing to add new things.

And the seriousness with which the other party takes my words always raises the doubt whether I have taken them seriously enough myself.