Latter-day scepticism is fond of calling itself progressive; but scepticism is really reactionary. Scepticism goes back; it attempts to unsettle what has already been settled. Instead of trying to break up new fields with its plough, it simply tries to break up the plough.

Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.

Is ditchwater dull? Naturalists with microscopes have told me that it teems with quiet fun.

Atheism is indeed the most daring of all dogmas . . . for it is the assertion of a universal negative.

For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.

The real trouble with this world of ours is not that it is an unreasonable world, nor even that it is a reasonable one. The commonest kind of trouble is that it is nearly reasonable, but not quite. ... It looks just a little more mathematical and regular than it is; its exactitude is obvious, but its inexactitude is hidden; its wilderness lies in wait.

Do not be proud of the fact that your grandmother was shocked at something which your are accustomed to seeing or hearing without being shocked. ... It may be that your grandmother was an extremely lively and vital animal and that you are a paralytic.