Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.

Hope means expectancy when things are otherwise hopeless.

I should favour anything that would increase the present enormous authority of women and their creative action in their own homes. The average woman...is a despot; the average man is a serf.

It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.

The only people who seem to have nothing to do with the education of the children are the parents.

The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.

Such professions as the soldier and the lawyer ... give ample opportunity for crimes but not much for mere illusions. ... If you have lost a battle you cannot believe you have won it; if your client is hanged you cannot pretend that you have gotten him off.