What was formerly merely sickly now becomes indecent : it is indecent to be a Christian today.

Man does not strive for happiness; only the Englishman does that.

The machine is impersonal, it takes the pride away from a piece of work, the individual merits and defects that go along with allwork that is not done by a machine--which is to say, its little bit of humanity.

The future influences the present just as much as the past.

One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.

We must take precautions against being prematurely honed sharp--since at the same time we are being prematurely honed thin.

A vocation makes us unthinking; that is its greatest blessing. For it is a bulwark behind which we are permitted to withdraw whencommonplace doubts and cares assail us.