If the poor ever feel poor as the rich do, we will have a most bloody revolution.

Great music is in a sense serene; it is certain of the values it asserts.

It is not possible that a just God should forgive people who are wicked because another person who was good endured agony by being nailed to a cross.

Were it possible for us to wait for ourselves to come into the room, not many of us would find our hearts breaking into flower as we heard the door handle turn.

A strong hatred is the best lamp to bear in our hands as we go over the dark places of life, cutting away the dead things men tell us to revere.

If it be ungentlemanly to kiss and tell, it is still further from gentlemanliness to pray and tell.

... when the Spaniards persecuted heretics they may have been crude, but they were not being unreasonable or unpractical. They were at least wiser than the people of to-day who pretend that it does not matter what a man believes, as who should say that the flavour and digestibility of a pudding will have nothing to do with its ingredients.