I have no fear that the candle lighted in Palestine years ago will ever be put out.
True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values.
Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.
A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it.
The object of studying philosophy is to know one's own mind, not other people's.
The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things.
Man, as we know him, is a poor creature; he is halfway between an ape and a god and he is travelling in the right direction.
Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.
It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.
Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to be the average person.
Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God; if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which it cannot remove.
Don't get up from the feast of life without paying for your share of it.
Many people believe that they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man.
Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not.
To marry is to get a binocular view of life.
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.
No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism.
I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.
Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter.
It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.
