Powerful men who have powerful passions use much of their strength in forging chains for themselves.

It has been often said, very truly, that religion is the thing that makes the ordinary man feel extraordinary; it is an equally important truth that religion is the thing that makes the extraordinary man feel ordinary.

It is very good for a man to talk about what he does not understand; as long as he understands that he does not understand it.

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

There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.

A sober man may become a drunkard through being a coward. A brave man may become a coward through being a drunkard.

Marxism: The theory that all the important things in history are rooted in an economic motive, that history is a science, a science of the search for food.