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.

To excuse what can really produce good excuses is not Christian charity; it is only fairness. To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable in you.

The natural life in each of us is something self-centred, something that wants to be petted and admired, to take advantage of other lives, to exploit the whole universe.

Term, holidays, term, holidays, till we leave school, and then work, work, work till we die.

By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result?

All men alike stand condemned, not by alien codes of ethics, but by their own, and all men therefore are conscious of guilt.

We make men without chests and expect from them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.