Theocracy is the worst of all governments. If we must have a tyrant, a robber baron is far better than an inquisitor. The baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity at some point be sated; and since he dimly knows he is doing wrong he may possibly repent. But the inquisitor who mistakes his own cruelty and lust of power and fear for the voice of Heaven will torment us infinitely because he torments us with the approval of his own conscience and his better impulses appear to him as temptations.

Autumn is really the best of the seasons

How difficult it is to avoid having a special standard for oneself.

Christ offers something for nothing: He even offers everything for nothing.

To make Christianity a private affair while banishing all privacy is to relegate it to the rainbow's end or the Greek Calends.

But in general, take my advice, when you meet anything that is going to be Human and isn’t yet, or used to be Human once and isn’t now, or ought to be Human and isn’t, you keep your eyes on it and feel for your hatchet.

You can't get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.