Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.

I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written.

The author always loads his dice, but he must never let the reader see that he has done so.

Our wise old church...has discovered that if you will act as if you believed belief will be given to you; if you pray with doubt, but pray with sincerity, your doubt will be dispelled; if you will surrender yourself to the beauty of that liturgy the power of which over the human spirit has been proved by the experience of the ages, peace will descend upon you.

Men have ascribed to God imperfections that they would deplore in themselves.

The normal is what you find but rarely. The normal is an ideal. It is a picture that one fabricates of the average characteristics of men, and to find them all in a single man is hardly to be expected.