I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come together and have the sentimentalism of the one matched with the cynicism of the other. That ought to bring them pretty close to the truth.

Change what cannot be accepted and accept what cannot be changed.

Whenever a church does anything for its own group, it has that right.

The old prose writers wrote as if they were speaking to an audience; while, among us, prose is invariably written for the eye alone.

We don't properly discriminate. We never discriminate properly when we're dealing with another group and one of the big problems about religion is that religious people don't know that they are probably as flagrant in these misjudgments as irreligious people.

Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.

I think I should know how to educate a boy, but not a girl; I should be in danger of making her too learned.