With every step of our lives we enter into the middle of some story which we are certain to misunderstand.

Man is always something worse or something better than an animal; and a mere argument from animal perfection never touches him at all. Thus, in sex no animal is either chivalrous or obscene. And thus no animal invented anything so bad as drunkeness - or so good as drink.

We do not want, as the newspapers say, a church that will move with the world. We want a church that will move the world.

The poetry of art is in beholding the single tower; the poetry of nature in seeing the single tree; the poetry of love in following the single woman; the poetry of religion in worshipping the single star.

If an editor can only make people angry enough, they will write half his newspaper for him for nothing.

If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not.

Whatever else we may say of our own age, for good or evil, nobody is likely to call it an Age of Reason.