The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel; its poverty by how little

Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.

The nations which have put mankind and posterity most in their debt have been small states Israel, Athens, Florence, Elizabethan England

Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to be the average man

Originality is undetected plagiarism

The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so

Experience proves that none is so cruel as the disillusioned sentimentalist

Civilization is being poisoned by its own waste products

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

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