The Devil's walking parody; On all four-footed things.

Whatever the word "great" means, Dickens was what it means.

The central idea of poetry is the idea of guessing right, like a child.

The sort of man who admires Italian art while despising Italian religion is a tourist and a cad.

Vigorous organisms talk not about their processes, but about their aims.

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.

There are arguments for atheism, and they do not depend, and never did depend, upon science. They are arguable enough, as far as they go, upon a general survey of life; only it happens to be a superficial survey of life.