It's not the world that's got so much worse but the news coverage that's got so much better.

The modern habit of saying "This is my opinion, but I may be wrong" is entirely irrational. If I say that it may be wrong, I say that is not my opinion. The modern habit of saying "Every man has a different philosophy; this is my philosophy and it suits me" – the habit of saying this is mere weak-mindedness. A cosmic philosophy is not constructed to fit a man; a cosmic philosophy is constructed to fit a cosmos. A man can no more possess a private religion than he can possess a private sun and moon.

Sometimes he even embarrassed the company by phrases suggesting that there was some difference between a Liberal and a Conservative.

When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it. The two things that nearly all of us have thoroughly and really been through are childhood and youth. And though we would not have them back again on any account, we feel that they are both beautiful, because we have drunk them dry.

You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.

When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.

I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.