That you cannot have Christian principles without Christ is becoming increasingly clear, because their validity as principles depends on Christ's authority.

It is said that love and a cough cannot be hid.

Once lay down the rule that the job comes first and you throw that job open to every individual, man or woman, fat or thin, tall or short, ugly or beautiful, who is able to do that job better than the rest of the world.

A continual atmosphere of hectic passion is very trying if you haven't got any of your own.

It is not the business of the church to adapt Christ to men, but men to Christ.

But if it ever occurs to people to value the honor of the mind equally with the honor of the body, we shall get a social revolution of a quite unparalleled sort — and very different from the kind that is being made at the moment.

You're thinking that people don't keep up old jealousies for twenty years or so. Perhaps not. Not just primitive, brute jealousy. That means a word and a blow. But the thing that rankles is hurt vanity. That sticks. Humiliation. And we've all got a sore spot we don't like to have touched.