Our Lord did not ask us to give up the things of earth, but to exchange them for better things.

Sex has become one of the most discussed subjects of modern times. The Victorians pretended it did not exist; the moderns pretend nothing else exists.

But there was no room at the inn"; the inn is the gathering place of public opinion; so often public opinion locks its doors to the King.

When our conscience bothers us, whether we admit it or not, we often try to justify it by correcting others, or by finding fault with them. The readiness to believe evil about others is in large part ammunition for a thousand scandals in our own hearts.

The proud man counts his newspaper clippings, the humble man his blessings.

The mind has three operations: the formation of ideas, judgements and reasoning.

The workmen in a factory may have a shadowy, unknown absentee "employer" - the thousands of individual owners of stock - whom "management" represents and tries to please by extra dividends. The workman's livelihood is at the disposition of strangers who make a single demand of their representatives: higher profits.