If seeds in the black earth can turn into such beautiful roses, what might not the heart of man become in its long journey toward the stars?

You!" he cried. "You never hated because you never lived. I know what you are all of you, from first to last--you are the people in power! You are the police--the great, fat smiling men in blue and buttons! You are the Law, and you have never been broken. But is there a free soul alive that does not long to break you, only because you have never been broken?

In truth the Church is too unique to prove herself unique. For most popular and easy proof is by parallel; and here there is no parallel.

We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.

Because our expression is imperfect we need friendship to fill up the imperfections.

Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.

The oligarchic character of the modern English commonwealth does not rest, like many oligarchies, on the cruelty of the rich to the poor. It does not even rest on the kindness of the rich to the poor. It rests on the perennial and unfailing kindness of the poor to the rich.