To foment grievance and to set men at variance is the trade by which agitators thrive and journalists make money.

Of course, there is some truth in advertising. There's yeast in bread, but you can't make bread with yeast alone. Truth in advertising is like leaven, which a woman hid in three measures of meal. It provides a suitable quantity of gas, with which to blow out a mass of crude misrepresentation into a form that the public can swallow.

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.

Still, it doesn't do to murder people, no matter how offensive they may be.

The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity; so have some little frocks; but they are both not the kind of thing you can run up in half an hour with a machine.

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