When it wishes anything done which is really serious, it collects twelve of the ordinary men standing round. The same thing was done, if I remember right, by the Founder of Christianity.

All that we call spirit and art and ecstacy only means that for one awful instant we remember that we forgot.

People decided that it was impossible to achieve any of the good of Socialism, but they comforted themselves by achieving all the bad.

You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.

Family is the theatre of the spiritual drama, the place where things happen, especially the things that matter.

I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.

It is not merely true that a creed unites men. Nay, a difference of creed unites men - so long as it is a clear difference. A boundary unites. Many a magnanimous Moslem and chivalrous Crusader must have been nearer to each other, because they were both dogmatists, than any two agnostics. "I say God is One," and "I say God is One but also Three," that is the beginning of a good quarrelsome, manly friendship.