And men said that the blood of the stars flowed in her veins

No justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous. Without the aid of trained emotions the intellect is powerless against the animal organism. I had sooner play cards against a man who was quite skeptical about ethics, but bred to believe that ‘a gentleman does not cheat’, than against an irreproachable moral philosopher who had been brought up among sharpers.

If Christianity was something we were making up, of course we could make it easier. But it is not.

The Christians are right: it is Pride which has been the chief cause of misery in every nation and every family since the world began.

Only a real risk tests the reality of a belief.

The mark of Friendship is not that help will be given when the pinch comes (of course it will) but that, having been given, it makes no difference at all.

This world is a great sculptor's shop. We are the statues and there is a rumor going round the shop that some of us are some day going to come to life.