Real life is, to most men, a long second best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible.

Every sane and sensible and quiet thing we do is absolutely ignored by the press.

Belief in God and a future life makes it possible to go through life with less of stoic courage than is needed by skeptics.

The qualities most needed are charity and tolerance, not some form of fanatical faith such as is offered to us by the various rampant isms

For the learning of every virtue there is an appropriate discipline, and for the learning of suspended judgment the best discipline is philosophy.

Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?

Berkeley retains the merit of having shown that the existence of matter is capable of being denied without absurdity.