Why must you always try to be omnipotent, and shove things about? Tragic things happen sometimes that we just have to submit to.

Man is a hating rather than a loving animal.

I believe if people are looking for the truth, the truth of the Christian religion will come out and meet them.

The redemptive power of divine grace no longer seemed credible, nor very respectable in the arbitrary performance that was claimed for it.

The Portrait of a Lady is entirely successful in giving one the sense of having met somebody far too radiantly good for this world.

In England and America a beard usually means that its owner would rather be considered venerable than virile; on the continent of Europe it often means that its owner makes a special claim to virility.

... in the happy laughter of a theatre audience one can get the most immediate and numerically impressive guarantee that there is nothing in one's mind which is not familiar to the mass of persons living at the time.