Love remembered and consecrated by grief belongs, more clearly than the happy intercourse of friends, to the eternal world; it has proved itself stronger than death.

A cat can be trusted to purr when she is pleased, which is more than can be said for human beings.

Our test is infallible. Whatever view of reality deepens our sense of the tremendous issues of life in the world wherein we move, is for us nearer the truth than any view which diminishes that sense.

Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.

There are no rewards or punishments - only consequences.

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

Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not.