Man must have just enough faith in himself to have adventures, and just enough doubt of himself to enjoy them.

The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason.

A Catholic is a person who has plucked up courage to face the incredible and inconceivable idea that something else may be wiser than he is.

Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head.

The Party System was founded on one national notion of fair play. It was the notion that folly and futility should be fairly divided between both sides.

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

I do not know much about Mohammed or Mohammedanism. I do not take the Koran to bed with me every night. But, if I did on some one particular night, there is one sense at least in which I know what I should not find there. I apprehend that I should not find the work abounding in strong encouragements to the worship of idols; that the praises of polytheism would not be loudly sung; that the character of Mohammed would not be subjected to anything resembling hatred and derision; and that the great modern doctrine of the unimportance of religion would not be needlessly emphasised.