Admiration for ourselves and our institutions is too often measured by our contempt and dislike for foreigners.

Christianity promises to make men free; it never promises to make them independent.

All human love is a holy thing, the holiest thing in our experience.

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

There is no law of progress. Our future is in our own hands, to make or to mar. It will be an uphill fight to the end, and would we have it otherwise? Let no one suppose that evolution will ever exempt us from struggles. 'You forget,' said the Devil, with a chuckle, 'that I have been evolving too.

I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.

Don't break the silence unless you can improve on it.