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The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.

The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.

Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.

The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf - it's almost a law.

A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.

The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.

If we don't end war, war will end us.

Cynicism is humor in ill health.

After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.

Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.

Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.

There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.

Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.

The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.

Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.

The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.