It is only our bad temper that we put down to being tired or worried or hungry; we put our good temper down to ourselves.

I may repeat 'Do as you would be done by' till I am black in the face, but I cannot really carry it out till I love my neighbor as myself: and I cannot learn to love my neighbor as myself till I learn to love God;and I cannot learn to love God except by learning to obey him.

Consciousness is either inexplicable illusion, or else revelation.

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.

Courtship is the time for sowing those seeds which will grow up ten years into domestic hatred.

To what will you look for help if you will not look to that which is stronger than yourself?

In any fairly large and talkative community such as a university there is always the danger that those who think alike should gravitate together where they will henceforth encounter opposition only in the emasculated form of rumour that the outsiders say thus and thus. The absent are easily refuted, complacent dogmatism thrives, and differences of opinion are embittered by the group hostility. Each group hears not the best, but the worst, that the other group can say.