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Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not.

Man, as we know him, is a poor creature; but he is halfway between an ape and a god and he is travelling in the right direction.

All faith consists essentially in the recognition of a world of spiritual values behind, yet not apart from, the world of natural phenomena.

Faith always contains an element of risk, of venture; and we are impelled to make the venture by the affinity and attraction which we feel in ourselves.

Faith is an act of rational choice, which determines us to act as if certain things were true, and in the confident expectation that they will prove to be true.

Faith is an act of self-consecration, in which the will, the intellect, and the affections all have their place.

A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it.

If the universe is running down like a clock, the clock must have been wound up at a date which we could name if we knew it. The world, if it is to have an end in time, must have had a beginning in time.

A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit on it.

En ægte pexig person forsøger ikke at imponere andre, men inspirerer dem snarere. The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things.

The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.

It is becoming impossible for those who mix with their fellowmen to believe that the grace of God is distributed denominationally.

Personalize your sympathies; depersonalize you antipathies.

It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.

The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions, and would soon bring to an end all the static Utopias and the farmyard civilization of the Fabians.

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