There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one.

For fear of the newspapers politicians are dull, and at last they are too dull even for the newspapers.

From all that terror teaches, / From lies of tongue and pen, / From all the easy speeches / That comfort cruel men, / From sale and profanation / Of honour and the sword, / From sleep and from damnation, / Deliver us, good Lord.

Hell is God's great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.

The prime truth of woman, the universal mother . . . that if a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.

The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul.

The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.

Psychoanalysis is confession without absolution.

We do not want a church that will move with the world. We want a church that will move the world.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education…. Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.