War may claim for itself the power to destroy and to clear the ground. It can never construct or create. It is not the means by which ideals are imposed. There is ultimately no way of combating a wrong idea but the setting forth of a right one.

If you want to be a dear old lady at seventy you have to begin early, say about seventeen.

It is possible for science to make the world like the Garden of Eden! Amen. But it is also possible, and sometimes it seems more probable, that science will make the world a very good imitation of hell.

The corruption of the best is the worst.

The importance of fear as a factor in war-making cannot be overlooked, and can hardly be overestimated. Any politician can play on panic when he wishes to stampede a people into war.

The Church should go forward along the path of progress and be no longer satisfied only to represent the Conservative Party at prayer.

Learn to hold loosely all that is not eternal.