It is largely because the free-thinkers, as a school, have hardly made up their minds whether they want to be more optimist or more pessimist than Christianity that their small but sincere movement has failed.

If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment.

One of the chief uses of religion is that it makes us remember our coming from darkness, the simple fact that we are created.

The believers in miracles accept them (rightly or wrongly) because they have evidence for them. The disbelievers in miracles deny them (rightly or wrongly) because they have a doctrine against them.

We're all in the same boat, and we're all seasick.

Truth, of course, must of necessity be stranger than fiction, for we have made fiction to suit ourselves.

Democracy is reproached with saying that the majority is always right. But progress says that the minority is always right.