118 quotes
Wise men never grow up; indeed, they grow younger, for they lose the appalling worldly wisdom of youth.
A Lodge in the Wilderness (1906)
The true definition of a snob is one who craves for what separates men rather than for what unites them.
Memory Hold-The-Door (1940)
The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.
Montrose and Leadership (1930)
I have heard an atheist defined as a man who had no invisible means of support.
Canadian Occasions (1940)
We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
Every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective.
The Power-House (1916)
To-day we have fewer dogmas, but I think that we have stronger principles.
Canadian Occasions (1940)
The spark once transmitted may smoulder for generations under ashes, but the appointed time will come, and it will flare up to warm the world.
The Path of the King (1921)
In our modern world we have seen inaugurated the reign of a dull bourgeois rationalism, which finds some inadequate reason for all things in heaven and earth and makes a god of its own infallibility.
A Lodge in the Wilderness (1906)
Happiness lies only in a divine unrest; and if you are lapped in comfort you stagnate and miss it.
A Lodge in the Wilderness (1906)
I believe that every man has in his soul a passion for treasure-hunting, which will often drive a coward into prodigies of valour.
Prester John (1910)
I never mind choler in a man if he have also honesty and good sense.
Salute to Adventurers (1915)
It is only a dying cause which can attain to perfect taste.
A Lodge in the Wilderness (1906)
He knew less about women than he knew about the physics of hyperspace.
The House of the Four Winds (1935)
Perfect love casteth out fear, the Bible says; but, to speak it reverently, so does perfect hate.
Prester John (1910)
Bethink you of the blessedness. Every wife is like the Mother of God—she has the hope of bearing a saviour of mankind. She is the channel of the eternal purpose of Heaven.
The Path of the King (1921)
I cannot pry into motives. I only know of the existence of great extra-social intelligences. Let us say that they distrust the machine.
The Power-House (1916)
Civilisation knows how to use such powers as it has, while the immense potentiality of the unlicensed is dissipated in vapour.
The Power-House (1916)
When all is said, we are ruled by the amateurs and the second-rate.
The Power-House (1916)
Though nature is wasteful of material things, there is no waste of spirit. And then after long years there comes, unheralded and unlooked-for, the day of the Appointed Time...
The Path of the King (1921)