It will not bother me in the hour of death to reflect that I have been "had for a sucker" by any number of imposters but it would be a torment to know that one had refused even one person in need.

The hardness of God is kinder than the softness of men, and His compulsion is our liberation.

Most of us need the crutch at times; but of course it is idiotic to use the crutch when our own legs (our own loves, tastes, habits etc.) can do the journey on their own.

Nothing is more likely to destroy a species or a nation than a determination to survive at all costs

It matters enormously if I alienate anyone from the truth.

Ink is the great cure for all human ills.

Either the day must come when joy prevails and all the makers of misery are no longer able to infect it, or else, for ever and ever, the makers of misery can destroy in others the happiness they reject for themselves.