It seems to me,' said the other, 'That you are simply seeking a pretext to insult the Marquis.' By George!' said Syme facing round and looking at him, 'What a clever chap you are!

Blessed is he that expecteth nothing, for he shall be gloriously surprised.

Joy, which was the small publicity of the pagan, is the gigantic secret of the Christian.

When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.

The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.

The truth is that it is our attitude towards children that is right, and our attitude towards grown-up people that is wrong.

Mr. Blatchford says that there was not a Fall but a gradual rise. But the very word "rise" implies that you know toward what you are rising. Unless there is a standard you cannot tell whether you are rising or falling. But the main point is that the Fall like every other large path of Christianity is embodied in the common language talked on the top of an omnibus. Anybody might say, "Very few men are really Manly." Nobody would say, "Very few whales are really whaley."