My attitude toward progress has passed from antagonism to boredom. I have long ceased to argue with people who prefer Thursday to Wednesday because it is Thursday.

We are learning to do a great many clever things. The next great task will be to learn not to do them.

War is not the best way of settling differences; it is the only way of preventing their being settled for you.

No sceptical philosopher can ask any questions that may not equally be asked by a tired child on a hot afternoon.

When we look upon lives so human and yet so small, we feel as if we ourselves were enlarged to an embarrassing bigness of stature. We feel the same kind of obligation to these creatures that a deity might feel if he had created something that he could not understand.

The great saint may be said to mix all his thoughts with thanks. All goods look better when they look like gifts.

The primary paradox of Christianity is that the ordinary condition of man is not his sane or sensible condition; that the normal itself is an abnormality.