Every reformation must have its victims. You can’t expect the fatted calf to share the enthusiasm of the angels over the prodigal’s return.

No one can be an unbeliever nowadays. The Christian apologists have left one nothing to disbelieve.

The man is a common murderer. A common murderer, possible, but a very uncommon cook.

Children are given us to discourage our better emotions.

He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.

We all know that Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth, but like other wedded couples they sometimes live apart.

People talk vaguely about the innocence of a little child, but they take mighty good care not to let it out of their sight for twenty minutes.