Ignorance and prejudice are the ballast of our ship of state - however, ships without ballast are not seaworthy and cannot sail in the tempests, nor reach a safe harbor.

He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him.

We believe half-instinctively that evil always defeats itself in the long run. Pacifism is founded largely on this belief. Don't resist evil, and it will somehow destroy itself. But why should it? What evidence is there that it does... unless conquered from the outside by military force?

No doubt alcohol, tobacco, and so forth, are things that a saint must avoid; but sainthood is also a thing that human beings must avoid.

Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.

Myths which are believed in tend to become true.