The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul.- Gilbert K. Chesterton
The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.
Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.
You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.
Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.
Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.
White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.
When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
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When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.
When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity.
What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things; it is rather not finding them in the familiar place.
We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.
