People seem to fight about things very unsuitable for fighting. They make a frightful noise in support of very quiet things. They knock each other about in the name of very fragile things.

The worst moment for an atheist is when he feels a profound sense of gratitude and has no one to thank.

A child's instinct is almost perfect in the matter of fighting. The child's hero is always the man or boy who defends himself suddenly and splendidly against aggression.

The power which makes a man able to entertain a good impulse is the same as that which enables him to make a good gun; it is imagination.

When learned men begin to use their reason, then I generally discover that they haven't got any.

To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.

Do not, I beseech you be troubled by the increase of forces already in dissolution. You have mistake the hour of the night: it is already morning.