No man's really any good till he knows how bad he is, or might be.

White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.

If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments

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.

There is only one reason an intelligent person doesn't believe in miracles. He or she believes in materialism.

London is a riddle. Paris is an explanation.

I will go forth as a real outlaw," he said, "and as men do robbery on the highway I will do right on the highway; and it will be counted a wilder crime.