Those who leave the tradition of truth do not escape into something which we call Freedom. They only escape into something else, which we call Fashion.

A sober man may become a drunkard through being a coward. A brave man may become a coward through being a drunkard.

I might inform those humanitarians who have a nightmare of new and needless babies (for some humanitarians have that sort of horror of humanity) that if the recent decline in the birth-rate were continued for a certain time, it might end in there being no babies at all; which would console them very much.

Nobody understands the nature of the Church, or the ringing note of the creed descending from antiquity, who does not realize that the whole world once very nearly died of broadmindedness and the brotherhood of all religions.

It seems a pity that psychology has destroyed all our knowledge of human nature.

No man's really any good till he knows how bad he is, or might be.

Human anger is a higher thing than what is called divine discontent. For you must be angry with something; but you can be discontented with everything.