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.

Customs are generally unselfish. Habits are nearly always selfish.

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

All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.

Is ditchwater dull? Naturalists with microscopes have told me that it teems with quiet fun.

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.