It is quite easy to see why a legend is treated, and ought to be treated, more respectfully than a book of history. The legend is generally made by the majority of people in the village, who are sane. The book is generally written by the one man in the village who is mad.

Every one on the earth should believe that he has something to give to the world which cannot otherwise be given.

If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment.

There is a corollary to the conception of being too proud to fight. It is that the humble have to do most of the fighting.

Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.

It is not greedy to enjoy a good dinner, any more than it is to enjoy a good concert. But I do think there is something greedy about trying to enjoy the dinner and the concert at the same time.

Christianity got over the difficulty of combining furious opposites, by keeping them both, and keeping them both furious.