No man knows he is young while he is young.

Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.

Time and again, the Faith has to all appearances gone to the dogs. But each time, it was the dog that died.

It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.

The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.

I still hold. . .that the suburbs ought to be either glorified by romance and religion or else destroyed by fire from heaven, or even by firebrands from the earth.

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