There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one.

What we call emancipation is always and of necessity simply the free choice of the soul between one set of limitations and another.

Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.

Love is not blind; that is the last thing that it is. Love is bound; and the more it is bound the less it is blind.

Christendom has had a series of revolutions and in each one of them Christianity has died. Christianity has died many times and risen again; for it had a God who knew the way out of the grave.

Modern intelligence won't accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.