The home is not the one tame place in the world of adventure. It is the one wild place in the world of rules and set tasks.

The Christian is quite free to believe that there is a considerable amount of settled order and inevitable development in the universe. But the materialist is not allowed to admit into his spotless machine the slightest speck of spiritualism or miracle.

You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the world.

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.

Life is indeed terribly complicated—to a man who has lost his principles.

What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things; it is rather not finding them in the familiar place.

There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell.