Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization.

Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.

The old assumption of the approximate impossibility of war really rested on a similar assumption about the impossibility of evil-and especially of evil in high places.

The books that influence the world are those that it has not read.

There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.

Every heresy has been an effort to narrow the Church.

Bowing down in blind credulity, as is my custom, before mere authority and the tradition of the elders, superstitiously swallowing a story I could not test at the time by experiment or private judgment, I am firmly of the opinion that I was born on the 29th of May, 1874, on Campden Hill, Kensington; and baptised according to the formularies of the Church of England in the little church of St. George opposite the large Waterworks Tower that dominated that ridge.