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

The soul is dyed by the color of its leisure hours.

The church is only a secular institution in which the half-educated speak to the half-converted.

The jealous man is so preoccupied with what he hasn't got that he fails to appreciate the value of what he has got. He loses the ability to feel glad because the sun is shining. He doesn't see the wonder and the newness of the beginning of spring.

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.

Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.

The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things.