Experience proves that none is so cruel as the disillusioned sentimentalist.
No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism.
Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them.
The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.
All human love is a holy thing, the holiest thing in our experience.
We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.