Friendship is the instrument by which God reveals to each of us the beauties of others.

Safe?” said Mr. Beaver; “don’t you hear what Mrs. Beaver tells you? Who said anything about safe? ‘Course he isn’t safe. But he’s good. He’s the King, I tell you.

He liked books if they were books of information and had pictures of grain elevators or of fat foreign children doing exercises in model schools.

Democracy demands that little men should not take big ones too seriously; it dies when it is full of little men who think they are big themselves.

Once the feet are put right, all the rest of him will follow.

The first fact in the history of Christendom is a number of people who say they have seen the Resurrection.

I do not doubt that if the Paradisal man could now appear among us, we should regard him as an utter savage, a creature to be exploited or, at best, patronised. Only one or two, and those the holiest among us, would glance a second time at the naked, shaggy-bearded, slow spoken creature: but they, after a few minutes, would fall at his feet.