Men rush towards complexity, but they yearn towards simplicity. They try to be kings; but they dream of being shepherds.

Anyone who is not an anarchist agrees with having a policeman at the corner of the street; but the danger at present is that of finding the policeman half-way down the chimney or even under the bed.

It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.

If I did not believe in God, I should still want my doctor, my lawyer and my banker to do so.

Even the moon is only poetical because there is a man in the moon.

In a world flagrant with the failures of civilization, what is there particularly immortal about our own?

It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong.