Liberty, taking the word in its concrete sense, consists in the ability to choose.

The great error of nearly all studies of war, an error into which all socialists have fallen, has been to consider war as an episode in foreign politics when it is especially an act of internal politics and the most atrocious act of all . . . Since the directing apparatus has no other way of fighting the enemy than by sending its own soldiers, under compulsion, to their death-the war of one state against another state resolves itself into a war of the state and the military apparatus against its own people.

We cannot take a single step toward heaven. It is not in our power to travel in a vertical direction. If however we look heavenward for a long time, God comes and takes us up.

A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if only to avoid being deceived by false doctrines.

Of two men who have no experience of God, he who denies him is perhaps nearer to him than the other.

Why is it that reality, when set down untransposed in a book, sounds false?

A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not.