A monarch frequently represents his subjects better that an elected assembly; and if he is a good judge of character he is likely to have more capable and loyal advisers.

I have no fear that the candle lighted in Palestine years ago will ever be put out.

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

To marry is to get a binocular view of life.

Faith is an act of rational choice, which determines us to act as if certain things were true, and in the confident expectation that they will prove to be true.

The vulgar mind always mistakes the exceptional for the important.

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