With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.

The modern world is filled with men who hold dogmas so strongly that they do not even know they are dogmas.

I am myself so exceedingly Nordic, as far as physical constitution is concerned, that I can enjoy almost any weather except what is called glorious weather. At the end of a few days, I am left wondering how the men of the Mediterranean ever managed to do almost all the most active and astonishing things that have been done.

I have little doubt that when St. George had killed the dragon he was heartily afraid of the princess.

Any one thinking of the Holy Child as born in December would mean by it exactly what we mean by it; that Christ is not merely a summer sun of the prosperous but a winter fire for the unfortunate.

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

The only way to be sure of catching a train is to miss the one before it.