Thanks are the highest form of thought.

The true savage is a slave, and is always talking about what he must do; the true civilised man is a free man, and is always talking about what he may do.

The Universe is the most extraordinary masterpiece ever constructed by nobody.

The sceptic ultimately undermines democracy (1) because he can see no significance in death and such things of a literal equality; (2) because he introduces different first principles, making debate impossible: and debate is the life of democracy; (3) because the fading of the images of sacred persons leaves a man too prone to be a respecter of earthly persons; (4) because there will be more, not less, respect for human rights if they can be treated as divine rights.

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

One can sometimes do good by being the right person in the wrong place.

What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but absence of self-criticism.