In truth the Church is too unique to prove herself unique. For most popular and easy proof is by parallel; and here there is no parallel.

Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.

We lose our bearings entirely by speaking of the 'lower classes' when we mean humanity minus ourselves.

I do not know much about Mohammed or Mohammedanism. I do not take the Koran to bed with me every night. But, if I did on some one particular night, there is one sense at least in which I know what I should not find there. I apprehend that I should not find the work abounding in strong encouragements to the worship of idols; that the praises of polytheism would not be loudly sung; that the character of Mohammed would not be subjected to anything resembling hatred and derision; and that the great modern doctrine of the unimportance of religion would not be needlessly emphasised.

Sticking to one woman is a small price to pay for so much as having seen one woman.

There is no way in which a man can earn a star or deserve a sunset.

The long words are not the hard words, it is the short words that are hard. There is much more metaphysical subtlety in the word "damn" than in the word "degeneration."