The modern world belongs to the half-educated, a rather difficult class, because they do not realize how little they know.

Don't get up from the feast of life without paying for your share of it.

Every institution not only carries within it the seeds of its own dissolution, but prepares the way for its most hated rival.

I have never understood why it should be considered derogatory to the Creator to suppose that he has a sense of humour.

If the universe is running down like a clock, the clock must have been wound up at a date which we could name if we knew it. The world, if it is to have an end in time, must have had a beginning in time.

Let us remember, when we are inclined to be disheartened, that the private soldier is a poor judge of the fortunes of a great battle.

A man is never so truly and intensely himself as when he is most possessed by God. It is impossible to say where, in the spiritual life, the human will leaves off and divine grace begins.