A man's own self is the last person to believe in him, and is harder to cheat than the rest of the world.

All this struggling and striving to make the world better is a great mistake. Not that it's wrong to try to improve the world if you know how but simply because struggling and striving are the worst possible ways to go about doing anything!

Those who understand the steam engine and the electric telegraph spend their lives in trying to replace them with something better.

The early Christian rules of life were not made to last, because the early Christians did not believe that the world itself was going to last.

Words are only postage stamps delivering the object for you to unwrap

If all the Churches of Europe closed their doors until the drums ceased rolling they would act as a most powerful reminder that though the glory of war is a famous and ancient glory, it is not the final glory of God.

Morality consists of suspecting other people of not being legally married.