Humour is, in fact, a prelude to faith; and laughter is the beginning of prayer … Laughter is swallowed up in prayer and humour is fulfilled by faith.

Democracies are indeed slow to make war, but once embarked upon a martial venture are equally slow to make peace and reluctant to make a tolerable, rather than a vindictive, peace.

The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

Evil is not to be traced back to the individual but to the collective behavior of humanity.

Faith is the final triumph over incongruity, the final assertion of the meaningfulness of existence.

Cheese, wine, and a friend must be old to be good.

All men who live with any degree of serenity live by some assurance of grace.