The good man's past begins to change so that his forgiven sins and remembered sorrows take on the quality of Heaven.

The doors of hell are locked from the inside!

It still remains true that no justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous.

Christian principles are, admittedly, stricter than the others; but then we think you will get help towards obeying them which you will not get towards obeying the others.

[God] will not be used as a convenience. Men or nations who think they can revive the Faith in order to make a good society might just as well think they can use the stairs of heaven as a shortcut to the nearest chemist's shop.

You've no idea how good an old joke sounds when you take it out again after a rest of five or six hundred years.

The greatest evil is not done in those sordid dens of evil that Dickens loved to paint ... but is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clear, carpeted, warmed, well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices.