Think of all those ages through which men have had the courage to die, and then remember that we have actually fallen to talking about having the courage to live.

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.

There is nothing so weak, for working purposes, as this enormous importance attached to immediate victory. There is nothing that fails like success.

The primary paradox of Christianity is that the ordinary condition of man is not his sane or sensible condition; that the normal itself is an abnormality.

The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is stupid.

The classes that wash most are those that work least.

Most modern freedom is at root fear. It is not so much that we are too bold to endure rules; it is rather that we are too timid to endure responsibilities.