Each new power won by man is a power over man as well. Each advance leaves him weaker as well as stronger.

We all agree that forgiveness is a beautiful idea until we have to practice it.

Humility, after the first shock, is cheerful virtue.

If you thirst you may drink.

No interviews without appointments except between nine and ten p.m. on second Saturdays.

Love, in the Christian sense, does not mean an emotion. It is a state not of the feelings but of the will; that state of the will which we have naturally about ourselves, and must learn to have about other people.

Do not imagine that if you meet a really humble man he will be what most people call "humble" nowadays: he will not be a sort of greasy, smarmy person, who is always telling you that, of course, he is a nobody. Probably all you will think about him is that he seemed a cheerful, intelligent chap who took a real interest in what you said to him.