Faith is always at a disadvantage; it is a perpetually defeated thing which survives all conquerors.

Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.

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.

A great curse has fallen upon modern life with the discovery of the vastness of the word Education.

Before the Roman came to Rye or out to severn strode, / The rolling English drunkard made the rolling English road.

People have fallen into a foolish habit of speaking of orthodoxy as something heavy, humdrum, and safe. There never was anything so perilous or so exciting as orthodoxy. It was sanity: and to be sane is more dramatic than to be mad.

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.