Lord, teach us to take our hearts and look them in the face, however difficult it may be.

The rule seemed to be that a great woman must either die unwed ... or find a still greater man to marry her. ... The great man, on the other hand, could marry where he liked, not being restricted to great women; indeed, it was often found sweet and commendable in him to choose a woman of no sort of greatness at all.

... at no point have I yet found artistic truth and theological truth at variance.

Oh, well, faint heart never won so much as a scrap of paper

Never think that wars are irrational catastrophes: they happen when wrong ways of thinking and living bring about intolerable situations ... the root causes of conflict are usually to be found in some wrong way of life in which all parties have acquiesced, and for which everybody must, to some extent, bear the blame.

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

The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.