The old assumption of the approximate impossibility of war really rested on a similar assumption about the impossibility of evil-and especially of evil in high places.

If the common man in the past had a grave respect for property, it may conceivably have been because he sometimes had some of his own.

He is a [sane] man who can have tragedy in his heart and comedy in his head.

If the barricades went up in our streets and the poor became masters, I think the priests would escape, I fear the gentlemen would; but I believe the gutters would simply be running with the blood of philanthropists.

CIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated.

And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet.

The grinding power of the plain words of the Gospel story is like the power of mill-stones, and those who can read them simply enough will feel as if rocks had been rolled upon them.