Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.

How quickly revolutions grow old; and, worse still, respectable.

Gratitude, being nearly the greatest of human duties, is also nearly the most difficult.

The old religionist cried out for his god. The new religionist cries out for some god to be his.

At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper. . . .

Somehow one can never manage to be an atheist.

[Fairy tales] make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water.