If the universe is running down like a clock, the clock must have been wound up at a date which we could name if we knew it. The world, if it is to have an end in time, must have had a beginning in time.

Boredom is a certain sign that we are allowing our faculties to rust in idleness.

A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it.

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.

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

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

Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God; if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which it cannot remove.