The real trouble with this world of ours is not that it is an unreasonable one. The trouble is that it is nearly reasonable, but not quite.

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

When once you have got hold of a vulgar joke, you may be certain that you have got hold of a subtle and spiritual idea.

A faith is that which is able to survive a mood.

It is cold anarchy to say that all men are to meddle in all men'smarriages. It is cold anarchy to say that any doctor may seize andsegregate anyone he likes. But it is not anarchy to say that a fewgreat hygienists might enclose or limit the life of all citizens,as nurses do with a family of children. It is not anarchy, it istyranny; but tyranny is a workable thing.

One can no more have a private religion than one can have a private sun or a private moon.

The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church