How much larger your life would be if you were smaller in it.

the object of a new year is not that we should have a new year, but rather that we should have a new soul.

There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.

To do Mohammed justice, his main attack was against the idolatries of Asia. Only he thought, just as the Arians did and just as the Unitarians do, that he could attack them better with a greater approximation to plain theism. What distinguishes his heresy from anything like an Arian or Albigensian heresy is that, as it sprang up on the borders of Christendom, it could spread outwards to a barbaric world.

The academic mind reflects infinity, and is full of light by the simple process of being shallow and standing still.

It is ludicrous to suppose that the more sceptical we are the more we see good in everything. It is clear that the more we are certain what good is, the more we shall see good in everything.

There are a great many good people, and a great many sane people here this afternoon. Unfortunately, by a kind of coincidence, all the good people are mad, and all the sane people are wicked.