Spring never is spring unless it comes too soon.

Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.

A strange fanaticism fills our time: the fanatical hatred of morality, especially of Christian morality.

Soldiers have many faults, but they have one redeeming merit; they are never worshippers of force. Soldiers more than any other men are taught severely and systematically that might is not right. The fact is obvious. The might is in the hundred men who obey. The right (or what is held to be right) is in the one man who commands them.

There are an infinity of angles at which one falls, only one at which one stands.

The great saint may be said to mix all his thoughts with thanks. All goods look better when they look like gifts.

The modern world is a crowd of very rapid racing cars all brought to a standstill and stuck in a block of traffic.