There is, in fact, a paradox about working to serve the community, and it is this: that to aim directly at serving the community is to falsify the work; the only way to serve the community is to forget the community and serve the work.

We cannot really look at the movement of the Spirit, just because It is the Power by which we do the looking.

He was so crooked, you could have used his spine for a safety-pin.

The people who hanged Christ never, to do them justice, accused Him of being a bore - on the contrary; they thought Him too dynamic to be safe. It has been left for later generations to muffle up that shattering personality and surround Him with an atmosphere of tedium.

What is the use of acquiring one's heart's desire if one cannot handle and gloat over it, show it to one's friends, and gather an anthology of envy and admiration?

A passage is not plain English - still less is it good English - if we are obliged to read it twice to find out what it means.

There are crimes which the Law cannot reach.