Society is in decay, final or transitional when common sense really becomes uncommon.

There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.

It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.

A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

If there were no God, there would be no atheists.

You'll never find the solution if you don't see the problem.

Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.

One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.

Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.

God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it, you cannot look at anything else.

Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.

Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.

Life, it turns out, is infinitely more clever and adaptable than anyone had ever supposed.

It’s every man’s business to see justice done.

You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of trifles.

There are no fools so troublesome as those who have some wit.

The chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.