Anger as well as love casts out fear.

There is no embarrassment quite like the embarrassment of listening to a person for whom one has a regard making a fool of himself.

... perhaps there is no conceit so arrogant as the conceit which follows a conviction of emancipation.

the profession of the ministry is like matrimony: if it is possible for you to keep out of it, it's a sign that you've no business to go into it!

we middle-aged folk have the education of life, truly; we know the multiplication table of anxieties and sorrows, the subtraction table of loss, the division table of responsibility.

War is wicked, beause it is murder and hate. And it is foolish, because hate and murder can only destroy people's bodies, not change their minds.

... if a man really and truly believed that black was white, you might advise him to see an oculist, but you mustn't call him a liar.