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

Tolerance is the virtue of those who don't believe anything.

Dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a drug and not as a drink.

Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.

The whole truth is generally the ally of virtue; a half-truth is always the ally of some vice.

I am not fighting a hopeless fight. People who have fought in real fights don't, as a rule.

Islam was something like a Christian heresy. The early heresies had been full of mad reversals and evasions of the Incarnation, rescuing their Jesus from the reality of his body even at the expense of the sincerity of his soul.