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

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.

Theology is only thought applied to religion.

For good or evil, a line has been passed in our political history; and something that we have known all our lives is dead. I will take only one example of it: our politicians can no longer be caricatured.

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

It is largely because the free-thinkers, as a school, have hardly made up their minds whether they want to be more optimist or more pessimist than Christianity that their small but sincere movement has failed.