The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.

To be clever enough to get all the money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

But we are the people of England; and we have not spoken yet. Smile at us, pay us, pass us. But do not quite forget.

Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.

Evil comes at leisure like the disease. Good comes in a hurry like the doctor.

Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.

The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

There are no uninteresting things, there are only uninterested people.