I think it very wrong to pray for people while they are in distress and then not to continue praying, now with thanksgiving, when they are relieved.

Nothing is more characteristically juvenile than contempt for juvenility. . . youth's characteristic chronological snobbery.

Every poem can be considered in two ways--as what the poet has to say, and as a thing which he makes.

God, in the end, gives people what they most want, including freedom from himself. What could be more fair?

The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

At present we are on the outside of the world, the wrong side of the door. We discern the freshness and purity of morning, but they do not make us fresh and pure. We cannot mingle with the splendours we see. But all the leaves of the New Testament are rustling with the rumour that it will not always be so. Some day, God willing, we shall get in.

The greatest evils in the world will not be carried out by men with guns, but by men in suits sitting behind desks