Nothing, perhaps, is strange, once you have accepted life itself, the great strange business which includes all lesser strangeness..

Each wrong act brings with it its own anesthetic, dulling the conscience and blinding it against further light, and sometimes for years..

I can think of few things more disastrous than starting a new correspondence with any one. Letters are a burden indeed ... they seem often the last s….

Churches are wonderful and beautiful, and they are vehicles for religion, but no Church can have more than a very little of the truth..

You point out that war is only a symptom of the whole horrid business of human behavior, and cannot be isolated. And that, even if we abolish war, we….

How far does one combine resistance to over-control with social justice, i.e. tolerable living for people in general? We are too selfish to be truste….

God very seldom succeeds. He has very nearly everything against him, of course..

Did you ever look through a microscope at a drop of pond water? You see plenty of love there. All the amoebae getting married. I presume they think i….

How agreeable to watch, from the other side of the high stile, this mighty creature, this fat bull of Bashan, snorting, champing, pawing the earth, l….

The manuscript may go forth from the writer to return with a faithfulness passing the faithfulness of the boomerang or the homing pigeon..

Work is a dull thing; you cannot get away from that. The only agreeable existence is one of idleness, and that is not, unfortunately, always compatib….

Cruelty was the devil, and most people were, in one way or another, cruel. Tyranny, suppression, persecution, torture, slavery, war, neglect - all we….

Here is one of the points about this planet which should be remembered; into every penetrable corner of it, and into most of the impenetrable corners….

Still I sojourn here, alone and palely loitering, though the sedge is withered from the lake and no birds sing. For I sent the bath towel to the wash….

There's one thing about freedom ... each generation of people begins by thinking they've got it for the first time in history, and ends by being sure….