Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?

[A pacifist is] the last and least excusable on the list of the enemies of society.

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

The modern world... has no notion except that of simplifying something by destroying nearly everything.

Theology is simply that part of religion that requires brains.

A modern man may disapprove of some of his sweeping reforms, and approve others; but finds it difficult not to admire even where he does not approve.

Democracy is like blowing your nose. You may not do it well, but it's something you ought to do yourself.