Men may keep a sort of level of good, but no man has ever been able to keep on one level of evil.

There is also an insulting speech about 'one grey day just like another'. You might as well talk about one green tree like another.

To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.

He wondered why the pelican was the symbol of charity, except it was that it wanted a good deal of charity to admire a pelican.

People seem to fight about things very unsuitable for fighting. They make a frightful noise in support of very quiet things. They knock each other about in the name of very fragile things.

Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization.

IF we desire European civilization to be a raid and a rescue, we shall insist rather that souls are in real peril than that their peril is ultimately unreal. And if we wish to exalt the outcast and the crucified, we shall rather wish to think that a veritable God was crucified, rather than a mere sage or hero. Above all, if we wish to protect the poor we shall be in favour of fixed rules and clear dogmas. The rules of a club are occasionally in favour of the poor member. The drift of a club is always in favour of the rich one.