Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?

Human nature is complex. Even if we do have inclinations toward violence, we also have inclination to empathy, to cooperation, to self-control.

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.