The power which makes a man able to entertain a good impulse is the same as that which enables him to make a good gun; it is imagination.

One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.

We are like the penny, because we have the image of the king stamped on us, the divine king.

It is not merely true that a creed unites men. Nay, a difference of creed unites men - so long as it is a clear difference. A boundary unites. Many a magnanimous Moslem and chivalrous Crusader must have been nearer to each other, because they were both dogmatists, than any two agnostics. "I say God is One," and "I say God is One but also Three," that is the beginning of a good quarrelsome, manly friendship.

Free verse'? You may as well call sleeping in a ditch 'free architecture'.

When learned men begin to use their reason, then I generally discover that they haven't got any.

As an explanation of the world materialism has a sort of insane simplicity. It has the quality of a madman's arguments; we have at once the sense of it covering everything and the sense of it leaving everything out.