All men matter. You matter. I matter. It's the hardest thing in theology to believe.

The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.

Tradition is only democracy extended through time; it may be defined as an extension of the franchise. Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who are merely walking about. All democrats object to men being disqualified by accident of birth; tradition objects to their being disqualified by accident of death. Democracy tells us not to neglect a good man's opinion, even if he is our father.

If you convey to a woman that something ought to be done, there is always a dreadful danger that she will suddenly do it.

Shouldn't atheist have an equal obligation to explain pleasure in a world of randomness. Where does pleasure come from?

Pride consists in a man making his personality the only test, instead of making truth the test. The sceptic feels himself too large to measure life by the largest things; and ends by measuring it by the smallest thing of all.