They say travel broadens the mind, but you must have the mind.

There is a corollary to the conception of being too proud to fight. It is that the humble have to do most of the fighting.

All good men are international. Nearly all bad men are cosmopolitan. If we are to be international we must be national.

The man who lives in contact with what he believes to be a living Church is a man always expecting to meet Plato and Shakespeare tomorrow at breakfast. He is always expecting to see some truth that he has never seen before.

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.

The test of happiness is gratitude.

But I was frightfully fond of the universe and wanted to address it by a diminutive. I often did so; and it never seemed to mind.