People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

No man must be superior to the things that are common to men.... Not only are we all in the same boat, but we are all seasick.

All men matter. You matter. I matter. It's the hardest thing in theology to believe.

One pleasure attached to growing older is that many things seem to be growing younger; growing fresher and more lively than we once supposed them to be.

There are many definite methods, honest and dishonest, which make people rich; the only instinct I know of which does it is that instinct which theological Christianity crudely describes as the sin of avarice.

Latter-day scepticism is fond of calling itself progressive; but scepticism is really reactionary. Scepticism goes back; it attempts to unsettle what has already been settled. Instead of trying to break up new fields with its plough, it simply tries to break up the plough.

Even the moon is only poetical because there is a man in the moon.