When belief in God becomes difficult, the tendency is to turn away from Him; but in heaven's name to what?

CIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated.

. . . For friendship implies individuality; whereas comradeship really implies the temporary subordination, if not the temporary swamping of individuality. Friends are the better for being two; but comrades are the better for being two million.

Certain new theologians dispute original sin, which is the only part of Christian theology which can really be proved.

We lose our bearings entirely by speaking of the 'lower classes' when we mean humanity minus ourselves.

For Scotland has a double dose of the poison called heredity; the sense of blood in the aristocrat, the sense of doom in the Calvinist.

In the end it will not matter to us whether we wrote well or ill; whether we fought with flails or reeds. It will matter to us greatly on what side we fought.