"Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf; is better than a whole loaf"
"Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling"
"Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all"
"Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity"
"Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper"
"Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head"
"The only way to be sure of catching a train is to miss the one before it"
"Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere"
"Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried"
"Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc"
"Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle"
"Being "contented" ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position"
