I am not fighting a hopeless fight. People who have fought in real fights don't, as a rule.

Nothing is certain by uncertainty.

People decided that it was impossible to achieve any of the good of Socialism, but they comforted themselves by achieving all the bad.

But a somewhat more liberal and sympathetic examination of mankind will convince us that the cross is even older than the gibbet, that voluntary suffering was before and independent of compulsory; and in short that in most important matters a man has always been free to ruin himself if he chose.

As for the general view that the Church was discredited by the War—they might as well say that the Ark was discredited by the Flood. When the world goes wrong, it proves rather that the Church is right. The Church is justified, not because her children do not sin, but because they do.

Progress is the mother of problems.

In the struggle for existence, it is only on those who hang on for ten minutes after all is hopeless, that hope begins to dawn.