The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.

The sceptic ultimately undermines democracy (1) because he can see no significance in death and such things of a literal equality; (2) because he introduces different first principles, making debate impossible: and debate is the life of democracy; (3) because the fading of the images of sacred persons leaves a man too prone to be a respecter of earthly persons; (4) because there will be more, not less, respect for human rights if they can be treated as divine rights.

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

No man knows he is young while he is young.

A detective story generally describes six living men discussing how it is that a man is dead. A modern philosophic story generally describes six dead men discussing how any man can possibly be alive.

I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.

Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.