Those who make some other person their job... are dangerous.

Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject.

The dogma of the Incarnation is the most dramatic thing about Christianity, and indeed, the most dramatic thing that ever entered the mind of man; but if you tell people so, they stare at you in bewilderment.

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.

Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight out, we should all retire to the workhouse.

None of us feels the true love of God till we realize how wicked we are. But you can't teach people that - they have to learn by experience.

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