If you spell a word wrong you have some temptation to think it wrong.

It is the root of all religion that a man knows that he is nothing in order to thank God that he is something.

For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.

"Are you a devil?" "I am a man," answered Father Brown gravely; "and therefore have all devils in my heart."

There are two kinds of peacemakers in the modern world; and they are both, though in various ways, a nuisance. The first peacemaker is the man who goes about saying that he agrees with everybody. He confuses everybody. The second peacemaker is the man who goes about saying that everybody agrees with him. He enrages everybody. Between the two of them they produce a hundred times more disputes and distractions than we poor pugnacious people would ever have thought of in our lives.

Thanks are the highest form of thought.

Gratitude, being nearly the greatest of human duties, is also nearly the most difficult.