Religion was their meat and their excitement, their mental food and their emotional pleasure.

though some men did not make war as others did, if they sold their goods for profit to the war-makers, did it make them better because the weapon was not in their own hands, if they had made the weapon and sold it and so put it into the hands of those used it upon the innocent?

Every event has had its cause, and nothing, not the least wind that blows, is accident or causeless.

The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between its men and its women.

Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.

There was an old abbot in one temple and he said something of which I think often and it was this, that when men destroy their old gods they will find new ones to take their place.

Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.