People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.

It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.

Why do all the clerks and navvies in the railway trains look so sad and tired, so very sad and tired? I will tell you. It is because they know that the train is going right. It is because they know that whatever place they have taken a ticket for that place they will reach. It is because after they have passed Sloane Square they know that the next station must be Victoria, and nothing but Victoria. Oh, their wild rapture! oh, their eyes like stars and their souls again in Eden, if the next station were unaccountably Baker Street!

Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.

A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

Freethinkers are occasionally thoughtful, though never free.