We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

Cobbles and kettledrums! ...I hope this madness isn't going to end in a moonlit climb and broken necks.

Who can endure a doctrine which would allow only dentists to say whether our teeth were aching, only cobblers to say whether our shoes hurt us, and only governments to tell us whether we were being well governed?

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.

A moderated religion is as good for us as no religion at all—and more amusing.

Good, as it ripens, becomes continually more different not only from evil but from other good.

That will not be the time for choosing: it will be the time when we discover which side we really have chosen, whether we realized it before or not. Now, today, this moment, is out chance to chose the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance. It will not last forever. We must take it or leave it.