The materialist theory of history, that all politics and ethics are the expression of economics, is a very simple fallacy indeed. It consists simply of confusing the necessary conditions of life with the normal preoccupations of life, that are quite a different thing.

How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.

A great curse has fallen upon modern life with the discovery of the vastness of the word Education.

There are many books which we think we have read when we have not. There are, at least, many that we think we remember when we do not. An original picture was, perhaps, imprinted upon the brain, but it has changed with our own changing minds. We only remember our remembrance.

We are like the penny, because we have the image of the king stamped on us, the divine king.

The grinding power of the plain words of the Gospel story is like the power of mill-stones, and those who can read them simply enough will feel as if rocks had been rolled upon them.

A good man's work is effected by doing what he does, a woman's by being what she is.