So far as a man may be proud of a religion rooted in humility, I am very proud of my religion; I am especially proud of those parts of it that are most commonly called superstition. I am proud of being fettered by antiquated dogmas and enslaved by dead creeds (as my journalistic friends repeat with so much pertinacity), for I know very well that it is the heretical creeds that are dead, and that it is only the reasonable dogma that lives long enough to be called antiquated.

Materialists and madmen never have doubts.

It's not the world that's got so much worse but the news coverage that's got so much better.

We lose our bearings entirely by speaking of the 'lower classes' when we mean humanity minus ourselves.

Stick to the man who looks out of the window and tries to understand the world. Keep clear of the man who looks in at the window and tries to understand you.

If the common man in the past had a grave respect for property, it may conceivably have been because he sometimes had some of his own.

The modern world... has no notion except that of simplifying something by destroying nearly everything.