A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.

Soldiers have many faults, but they have one redeeming merit; they are never worshippers of force. Soldiers more than any other men are taught severely and systematically that might is not right. The fact is obvious. The might is in the hundred men who obey. The right (or what is held to be right) is in the one man who commands them.

What we call emancipation is always and of necessity simply the free choice of the soul between one set of limitations and another.

What was wonderful about childhood is that anything in it was a wonder. It was not merely a world full of miracles; it was a miraculous world.

With every step of our lives we enter into the middle of some story which we are certain to misunderstand.

The martyr endured tortures to affirm his belief in truth but he never asserted his disbelief in torture.

It isn't that they can't see the solution. It's that they can't see the problem. They can't see the problem if they are looking in the wrong place. They can't see the problem if they have blinders on - for 'none are so blind as those that will not see'.