Evil comes at leisure like the disease. Good comes in a hurry like the doctor.

It is ludicrous to suppose that the more sceptical we are the more we see good in everything. It is clear that the more we are certain what good is, the more we shall see good in everything.

Plato was right, but not quite right.

The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, because this world is a very alarming place. They dislike being alone because it is verily and indeed an awful idea to be alone. Barbarians fear the unknown for the same reason that Agnostics worship it - because it is a fact.

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

The average businessman began to be agnostic, not so much because he did not know where he was, as because he wanted to forget. Many of the rich took to scepticism exactly as the poor took to drink; because it was a way out.

For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.