It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.

All faith consists essentially in the recognition of a world of spiritual values behind, yet not apart from, the world of natural phenomena.

Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.

They who will live for others shall have great troubles, but they shall seem to them small. Those who will live for themselves shall have small troubles, but they shall seem to them great.

Bereavement is the deepest initiation into the mysteries of human life, an initiation more searching and profound than even happy love.

In dealing with Englishmen you can be sure of one thing only, that the logical solution will not be adopted.

To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.