Science is the study of the admitted laws of existence, which cannot prove a universal negative about whether those laws could ever be suspended by something admittedly above them. It is as if we were to say that a lawyer was so deeply learned in the American Constitution that he knew there could never be a revolution in America.

Posting a letter and getting married [sic] are among the few things left that are entirely romantic; for to be entirely romantic, a thing must be irrevocable

We have not made cricket and football [soccer] professional because of any astonishing avarice or new vulgarity. We have made them professional because we would have them perfect. We have dedicated men to them as to some god of inhuman excellence. We care more for football than for the fun of playing football.

Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.

Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.

For the only courage worth calling courage must necessarily mean that the soul passes a breaking point and does not break.

Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.