God does not always punish a nation by sending it adversity. More often He gives the oppressors their hearts' desire, and sends leanness withal into their soul.

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.

It is quite natural and inevitable that, if we spend sixteen hours daily of our waking lives in thinking about the affairs of the world and five minutes in thinking about God and our souls, this world will seem two hundred times more real to us than God.

The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.

The statistics of suicide show that, for non-combatants at least, life is more interesting in war than in peace.

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

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