I do not feel any contempt for an atheist, who is often a man limited and constrained by his own logic to a very sad simplification.

The best kind of giving is thanksgiving.

Even in an empire of atheists the dead man is always sacred.

All literary style, especially national style, is made up of such coincidences, which are a spiritual sort of puns. That is why style is untranslatable.

The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present. History is a hill or high point of vantage, from which alone men see the town in which they live or the age in which they are living.

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.

There is no way in which a man can earn a star or deserve a sunset.