The truth is that there are no things for which men will make such herculean efforts as the things of which they know they are unworthy.

I came to the conclusion that the optimist thought everything good except the pessimist, and that the pessimist thought everything bad, except himself.

But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.

No man's really any good till he knows how bad he is, or might be.

There is nothing harder to learn than painting and nothing which most people take less trouble about learning. An art school is a place where about three people work with feverish energy and everybody else idles to a degree that I should have conceived unattainable by human nature.

My brain and this world don't fit each other; and there's an end of it.

The atheist is not interested in anything except attacks on atheism.