The State exists simply to promote and to protect the ordinary happiness of human beings in this life. A husband and wife chatting over a fire, a couple of friends having a game of darts in a pub, a man reading a book in his own room or digging in his own garden-that is what the State is there for. And unless they are helping to increase and prolong and protect such moments, all the laws, parliaments, armies, courts, police, economics, etc., are simply a waste of time.

There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him.

Pilate was merciful till it became risky.

The very lack of evidence is thus treated as evidence; the absence of smoke proves that the fire is very carefully hidden...A belief in invisible cats cannot be logically disproved although it does tell us a good deal about those who hold it.

Human beings judge one another by their external actions. God judges them by their moral choices.

We have not long to live in any event. Let us spend what is left in seeking the unpeopled world behind the sunrise.

you had nothing to say about it and yet made the nothing up into words.