On the strength of his literary output alone... any woman of sense would decline to tackle D.H. Lawrence at 1,000 pounds a night.

If men will not understand the meaning of judgement, they will never come to understand the meaning of grace.

But that's men all over ... Poor dears, they can't help it. They haven't got logical minds.

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

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.

Work is not primarily a thing one does to live but the thing one lives to do. It is, or it should be, the full expression of the worker's faculties, the thing in which he finds spiritual, mental and bodily satisfaction, and the medium in which he offers himself to God.

The young were always theoretical; only the middle-aged could realize the deadliness of principles.