A Christian is not a man who never goes wrong, but a man who is enabled to repent.

Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man.

When first things are put first, second things are not suppressed but increased.

You Too? I thought I was the only one.

You must be asking which door is the true one; not which pleases you best

All I am in private life is a literary critic and historian, that's my job...And I'm prepared to say on that basis if anyone thinks the Gospels are either legends or novels, then that person is simply showing his incompetence as a literary critic. I've read a great many novels and I know a fair amount about the legends that grew up among early people, and I know perfectly well the Gospels are not that kind of stuff.

Few men looked on her without becoming, in a certain fashion, her lovers. But it was the kind of love that made them not less true, but truer, to their own wives.