An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

I came to the conclusion that the optimist thought everything good except the pessimist, and that the pessimist thought everything bad, except himself.

[A pacifist is] the last and least excusable on the list of the enemies of society.

Mankind is not a tribe of animals to which we owe compassion. Mankind is a club to which we owe our subscription.

It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.

If you happen to read fairy tales, you will observe that one idea runs from one end of them to the other--the idea that peace and happiness can only exist on some condition. This idea, which is the core of ethics, is the core of the nursery-tales.

If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue.