The doctrine of hell is not "mediaeval priestcraft" for frightening people into giving money to the church: it is Christ's deliberate judgment on sin.... We cannot repudiate hell without altogether repudiating Christ.

The war has jerked us pretty sharply into consciousness about this slug-a-bed sin of Sloth, and perhaps we need not say too much about it. But two warnings are rather necessary.

you can give it a long name if you like, but I'm an old-fashioned woman and I call it mother-wit, and it's so rare for a man to have it that if he does you write a book about him and call him Sherlock Holmes.

She always says, my lord, that facts are like cows. If you look them in the face hard enough they generally run away.

If people will bring dynamite into a powder factory, they must expect explosions.

Every great man has a woman behind him ... And every great woman has some man or other in front of her, tripping her up.

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