This is the age in which thin and theoretic minorities can cover and conquer unconscious and untheoretic majorities.

One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time.

The truth is, of course, that the curtness of the Ten Commandments is an evidence, not of the gloom and narrowness of a religion, but, on the contrary, of its liberality and humanity. It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted, and only a few things are forbidden.

Just at present you only see the tree by the light of the lamp. I wonder when you would ever see the lamp by the light of the tree.

The modern world... has no notion except that of simplifying something by destroying nearly everything.

Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.

It is a good sign in a nation when things are done badly. It shows that all the people are doing them. And it is bad sign in a nation when such things are done very well, for it shows that only a few experts and eccentrics are doing them, and that the nation is merely looking on.