We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

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.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

For the pre-Darwinian age had come to be regarded as a Dark Age in which men still believed that the book of Genesis was a standard scientific treatise, and that the only additions to it were Galileo'a demonstration of Leonardo da Vinci's simple remark that the earth is a moon of the sun, Sir Humphrey Davy's invention of the safety lamp, the discovery of electricity, the application of steam to industrial purposes, and the penny post.

My only policy is to profess evil and do good.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something.

Two people getting together to write a book is like three people getting together to have a baby. One of them is superfluous.