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

Plato was only a Bernard Shaw who unfortunately made his jokes in Greek.

My attitude toward progress has passed from antagonism to boredom. I have long ceased to argue with people who prefer Thursday to Wednesday because it is Thursday.

Here ends another day, during which I have had eyes, ears, hands and the great world around me. Tomorrow begins another day. Why am I allowed two?

It is the friction of two spiritual things, of tradition and invention, or of substance and symbol, from which the mind takes fire. The creeds condemned as complex have something like the secret of sex; they can breed thoughts.

There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.

For the only courage worth calling courage must necessarily mean that the soul passes a breaking point and does not break.