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

The corruption of the best is the worst.

we are beginning to understand that this instinct of sex which has been so great a cause of suffering and shame and has been treated as a subject fit only for furtive whispers or silly jokes, is in fact one of the greatest powers in human nature, and that its misuse is indeed 'the expense of spirit in a waste of shame.

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

The laws of God work in the same way as the laws of Science. You cannot break them - you can only break yourself against them.

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.

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.