People who prefer to believe the worst of others will breed war and religious persecutions while the world lasts.

It is fatal to let people suppose that Christianity is only a mode of feeling; it is vitally necessary to insist that it is first and foremost a rational explanation of the universe.

Some people's blameless lives are to blame for a good deal.

It was left for the present age to endow Covetousness with glamour on a big scale, and to give it a title which it could carry like a flag. It occurred to somebody to call it Enterprise. From the moment of that happy inspiration, Covetousness has gone forward and never looked back.

The first thing that strikes the careless observer is that women are unlike men. They are 'the opposite sex' - (though why 'opposite' I do not know; what is the 'neighbouring sex'?).

I often think when a man's once past a certain age, the older he grows the tougher he gets, and women the same or more so.

If you want your own way, God will let you have it. Hell is the enjoyment of one's own way forever.