Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe in age.

She couldn't have found anything nastier to say if she had thought it out with both hands for a fortnight.

It is impossible for human nature to believe that money is not there. It seems so much more likely that the money is there and only needs bawling for.

A person who tells a secret, swearing the recipient to secrecy in turn, is asking of the other person a discretion which he is abrogating himself.

A woman fit to be a man's wife is too good to be his servant.

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.

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.