Humility, after the first shock, is cheerful virtue.

Think of me as a fellow patient in the same hospital who, having been admitted a little earlier could give some advice.

Surely what a man does when he is taken off guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is. If there are rats in a cellar, you are most likely to see them if you go in very suddenly. But the suddenness does not create the rats; it only prevents them from hiding. In the same way the suddenness of the provocation does not make me ill tempered; it only shows me what an ill-tempered man I am.

One of the reasons why it needs no special education to be a Christian is that Christianity is an education itself.

Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.

We can conceive of a world in which God corrected the results of abuse of free will by His creatures: so that a wooden beam became soft as grass when used as a weapon... But such a world would be one in which wrong actions were impossible, and therefore, freedom of the will would be void.

In the science, Evolution is a theory about changes; in the myth it is a fact about improvements.