There are two kinds of peacemakers in the modern world; and they are both, though in various ways, a nuisance. The first peacemaker is the man who goes about saying that he agrees with everybody. He confuses everybody. The second peacemaker is the man who goes about saying that everybody agrees with him. He enrages everybody. Between the two of them they produce a hundred times more disputes and distractions than we poor pugnacious people would ever have thought of in our lives.

When you break the big laws, you do not get liberty; you do not even get anarchy. You get the small laws.

Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all... As long as matters are really hopeful, hope is mere flattery or platitude; it is only when everything is hopeless that hope begins to be a strength.

What life and death may be to a turkey is not my business; but the soul of Scrooge and the body of Cratchit are my business.

Faith is always at a disadvantage; it is a perpetually defeated thing which survives all conquerors.

But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.

A faith is that which is able to survive a mood.