There'd be a lot less scandal if people didn't idealize sin and pose as sinners.

Democracy is like blowing your nose. You may not do it well, but it's something you ought to do yourself.

The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.

Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.

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.

These are the things which might conceivably and truly make men forgive their enemies. We can only turn hate to love by understanding what are the things that men have loved; nor is it necessary to ask men to hate their loves in order to love one another. Just as two grocers are most likely to be reconciled when they remember for a moment that they are two fathers, so two nationals are most likely to be reconciled when they remember (if only for a moment) that they are two patriots.