We have not, in fact, proved that science excludes miracles: we have only proved that the question of miracles, like innumerable other questions, excludes laboratory treatment.

The human mind is generally far more eager to praise or dispraise than it is to describe and define.

Most people don't need to be taught, they need only to be reminded

No time for better words, no time to unsay anything. -Til We Have Faces

Where I come from, they don't think much of men who are bossed about by their wives.

If you asked twenty good men to-day what they thought the highest of the virtues, nineteen of them would reply, Unselfishness. But if you asked almost any of the great Christians of old he would have replied, Love - You see what has happened? A negative term has been substituted for a positive, and this is of more than philological importance. The negative ideal of Unselfishness carries with it the suggestion not primarily of securing good things for others, but of going without them ourselves, as if our abstinence and not their happiness was the important point.

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