The vulgar mind always mistakes the exceptional for the important.

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 happy people are those who are producing something; the bored people are those who are consuming much and producing nothing.

Action is the normal completion of the act of will which begins as prayer. That action is not always external, but it is always some kind of effective energy.

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

The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.

All faith consists essentially in the recognition of a world of spiritual values behind, yet not apart from, the world of natural phenomena.