It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.

The more we are certain what good is, the more we shall see good in everything.

Correctitude implies nowadays a formal or fastidious use of words; and what is wanted is not so much the correct as the living use of words. It is the memory of the meaning of a word which is the life of the word.

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

Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant

He may be mad, but there's method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It's what drives men mad, being methodical.

Ivory may not be so white as snow, but the whole Arctic continent does not make ivory black.