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

To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will most certainly be wrung and possibly broken ... The only place outside Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is Hell.

We regard God as an airman regards his parachute; it's there for emergencies but he hopes he'll never have to use it.

Prosperity knits a man to the world. He feels that he is finding his place in it, while really it is finding its place in him.

Our passions are not too strong, they are too weak. We are far too easily pleased.

You can't see anything properly while your eyes are blurred with tears.

If you asked twenty good men to-day what they thought the highest of the virtues, nineteen of them would reply, Unselfishness. But if you asked almost any of the great Christians of old he would have replied, Love - You see what has happened? A negative term has been substituted for a positive, and this is of more than philological importance. The negative ideal of Unselfishness carries with it the suggestion not primarily of securing good things for others, but of going without them ourselves, as if our abstinence and not their happiness was the important point.