A thing may be morally neutral and yet the desire for that thing may be dangerous.

Everywhere, except in theology, there has been a vigorous growth of skepticism about skepticism itself.

It is a very funny thing that the sleepier you are, the longer you take about getting to bed.

There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way.'

You asked for a loving God: you have one... The consuming fire Himself, the Love that made the worlds, persistent as the artist's love for his work and despotic as a man's love for a dog, provident and venerable as a father's love for a child, jealous, inexorable, exacting as love between the sexes. How this should be, I do not know: it passes reason to explain why any creatures, not to say creatures such as we, should have a value so prodigious in their Creator's eyes.

The best swordsman in the world may be disarmed by a trick that's new to him.

Even in this world of course it is the stupidest children who are most childish and the stupidest grown-ups who are most grown-up.