The modern materialists are not permitted to doubt; they are forbidden to believe.

There is a corollary to the conception of being too proud to fight. It is that the humble have to do most of the fighting.

It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.

[There is] one distinctly human thing - the story. There can be as good science about a turnip as about a man. ... [Or philosophy, or theology] ...There can be, without any question at all, as good higher mathematics about a turnip as about a man. But I do not think, though I speak in a manner somewhat tentative, that there could be as good a novel written about a turnip as a man.

A man will not roll in the snow for a stream of tendency by which all things fulfill the law of their being. He will not go without food in the name of something, not ourselves, that makes for righteousness. He will do things like this, or pretty nearly like this, under quite a different impulse. He will do these things when he is in love.

The worst moment for an atheist is when he feels a profound sense of gratitude and has no one to thank.

A man cannot deserve adventures; he cannot earn dragons and hippogriffs.