We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it.

How monotonously alike all the great tyrants and conquerors have been: how gloriously different are the saints.

The Christian has a great advantage over other men, not by being less fallen than they, nor less doomed to live in a fallen world, but by knowing that he is a fallen man in a fallen world.

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

What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are.

Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that.

No more I do, your Majesty. But what's that got to do with it? I might as well die on a wild goose chase as die here.