What we call emancipation is always and of necessity simply the free choice of the soul between one set of limitations and another.

It was the people who did not care who filled the world with fire and oppression. It was the hands of the indifferent that lit the faggots; it was the hands of the indifferent that turned the rack.

When belief in God becomes difficult, the tendency is to turn away from Him; but in heaven's name to what?

A good joke is the closest thing we have to divine revelation.

It seems a pity that psychology has destroyed all our knowledge of human nature.

We ought to be interested in that darkest and most real part of a man in which dwell not the vices that he does not display, but the virtues that he cannot.

Adventure is the champagne of life.