When duty and religion are really destroyed, it will be by the rich.
You are my only friend in the world, and I want to talk to you. Or, perhaps, be silent with you.
To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.
You’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.
Wit is a sword; it is meant to make people feel the point as well as see it.
We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.
There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
Modern man is staggering and losing his balance because he is being pelted with little pieces of alleged fact which are native to the newspapers; and, if they turn out not to be facts, that is still more native to newspapers.
Blasphemy is an artistic effect, because blasphemy depends upon a philosophical conviction. Blasphemy depends upon belief and is fading with it. If any one doubts this, let him sit down seriously and try to think blasphemous thoughts about Thor.
One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.
The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.
A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.
We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
I don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right.
The Darwinian movement has made no difference to mankind, except that, instead of talking unphilosophically about philosophy, they now talk unscientifically about science.