When things are at their worst, I find something always happens.

In religion above all things the only thing of use is an objective truth. The only God that is of use is a being who is personal, supreme and good, and whose existence is as certain as that two and two make four.

Look after your laundry, and your soul will look after itself.

Sometimes the road was only a lane, with thick hawthorne hedges, and the green elms overhung it on either side so that when you looked up there was only a strip of blue sky between. And as you rode along in the warm, keen air you had a sensation that the world was standing still and life would last forever. Although you were pedaling with such energy you had a delicious feeling of laziness.

Tolerance is another word for indifference.

It must be that to govern a nation you need a specific talent and that this may very well exist without general ability.

A woman may be as wicked as she likes, but if she isn't pretty it won't do her much good.