Every man to whom salvation is offered has an inalienable natural right to say 'No, thank you: I prefer to retain my full moral responsibility: it is not good for me to be able to load a scapegoat with my sins: I should be less careful how I committed them if I knew they would cost me nothing.

The British churchgoer prefers a severe preacher because he thinks a few home truths will do his neighbors no harm.

Financiers live in a world of illusion. They count on something which they call the capital of the country, which has no existence.

All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.

Suppose the world were only one of God's jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one?

There is only one universal passion fear.

We all have--to put it as nicely as I can--our lower centres and our higher centres. Our lower centres act: they act with terriblepower that sometimes destroys us; but they don't talk.... Since the war the lower centres have become vocal. And the effect is that of an earthquake. For they speak truths that have never been spoken before--truths that the makers of our domestic institutions have tried to ignore.