The poor complain that they are governed badly. The rich complain that they are governed at all.

When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.

For Scotland has a double dose of the poison called heredity; the sense of blood in the aristocrat, the sense of doom in the Calvinist.

The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle

But perhaps God is strong enough to exult in monotony. It is possible that God says every morning, "Do it again" to the sun.; and every evening, "Do it again" to the moon. It may not be automatic monotony that makes all daisies alike; it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never gotten tired of making them. It may be that He has the eternal appetite of infancy; for we have sinned and grown old, and our Father is younger than we.

Not only does "orthodox" no longer mean being right, it practically means being wrong.

Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.