the truth and value of a theory does not depend on the number of people who are interested in it - otherwise you might compare the number of people who follow the predictions of astrologers in the daily press with those who attend lectures by Einstein, and conclude that astrology was more valuable and true than physics.

I love you - I am at rest with you - I have come home.

We ought to recognise the profound gulf between the work to which we are 'called' and the work we are forced into as a means of livelihood.

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

The popular mind has grown so confused that it is no longer able to receive any statement of fact except as an expression of personal feeling.

It is ridiculous to take on a man's job just in order to be able to say that 'a woman has done it - yah!' The only decent reason for tackling a job is that it is your job and you want to do it.

I think the most joyous thing in life is to loaf around and watch another bloke do a job of work. Look how popular are the men who dig up London with electric drills. Duke's son, cook's son, son of a hundred kings, people will stand there for hours on end, ear drums splitting. Why? Simply for the pleasure of being idle while watching other people work.