I am not fighting a hopeless fight. People who have fought in real fights don't, as a rule.

People have fallen into a foolish habit of speaking of orthodoxy as something heavy, humdrum, and safe. There never was anything so perilous or so exciting as orthodoxy. It was sanity: and to be sane is more dramatic than to be mad.

Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.

Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.

The power which makes a man able to entertain a good impulse is the same as that which enables him to make a good gun; it is imagination.

Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.

The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.