Let us remember, when we are inclined to be disheartened, that the private soldier is a poor judge of the fortunes of a great battle.

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

No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism.

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.

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.

Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized.

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