Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly; devils fall because of their gravity.
A mystic is a man who separates heaven and earth even if he enjoys them both.
Anything worth doing is worth doing badly.
The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.
The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.
Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty.
Of being strong and brave. The strong can not be brave. Only the weak can be brave; and yet again, in practice, only those who can be brave can be trusted, in the time of doubt, to be strong.
If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God...
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
Democracy is reproached with saying that the majority is always right. But progress says that the minority is always right.
The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried....
Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously....
Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all...
Modern intelligence won't accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
Every act of will is an act of self-limitation. To desire action is to desire limitation. In that sense, every act is an act of self-sacrifice. When you choose anything, you reject everything else.m Every act is an irrevocable selection and exclusion.
Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions....
We make our friends; we make our enemies, but God makes our next-door neighbor.
Tradition is only democracy extended through time.
Life is passed in making bad jokes and seeing them turn into true prophecies.
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people..
