Christianity got over the difficulty of combining furious opposites, by keeping them both, and keeping them both furious.

Great truths can only be forgotten and can never be falsified.

Pride juggles with her toppling towers, They strike the sun and cease, But the firm feet of humility They grip the ground like trees.

I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.

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

It is a good sign in a nation when things are done badly. It shows that all the people are doing them. And it is bad sign in a nation when such things are done very well, for it shows that only a few experts and eccentrics are doing them, and that the nation is merely looking on.

Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.