Where men are forbidden to honour a king, they honor millionaires, athletes, or film stars instead; even famous prostitutes or gangsters. For spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison.

Every Christian would agree that a man's spiritual health is exactly proportional to his love for God.

In those days Mr. Sherlock Holmes was still living in Baker Street and the Bastables were looking for treasure in the Lewisham Road.

The very nature of Joy makes nonsense of our common distinction between having and wanting.

Love is the great conqueror of lust.

Kindness consents very readily to the removal of its object – we have all met people whose kindness to animals is constantly leading them to kill animals lest they should suffer. Kindness, merely as such, cares not whether its object becomes good or bad, provided only that it escapes suffering.

All men alike stand condemned, not by alien codes of ethics, but by their own, and all men therefore are conscious of guilt.