The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.

There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.

But pure wit is akin to Puritanism; to the perfect and painful consciousness of the final fact in the universe. Very briefly, the man who sees the consistency in things is a wit - and a Calvinist. The man who sees the inconsistency in things is a humorist - and a Catholic.

Just at present you only see the tree by the light of the lamp. I wonder when you would ever see the lamp by the light of the tree.

The worst moment for an atheist is when he feels a profound sense of gratitude and has no one to thank.

Then I only wondered who put the toys in the stocking; now I wonder who put the stocking by the bed, and the bed in the room, and the room in the house, and the house on the planet, and the great planet in the void.

All we know of the Missing Link is that he is missing - and he won't be missed either.