[the difference between the old and the new education being] in a word, the old was a kind of propagation-men transmitting manhood to men; the new is merely propaganda.

God can show Himself as He really is only to real men. And that means not simply to men who are individually good, but to men who are united together in a body, loving one another, helping one another, showing Him to one another. For that is what God meant humanity to be like; like players in one band, or organs in one body.

The modern idea of a Great Man is one who stands at the lonely extremity of some single line of development--

For a long time I used to think this a silly, straw-splitting distinction: how could you hate what a man did and not hate the man? But years later it occurred to me that there was one man to whom I had been doing this all my life - namely myself.

Every natural love will rise again and live forever in this country: but none will rise again until it has been buried.

There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.

Pilate was merciful till it became risky.