The modern world is filled with men who hold dogmas so strongly that they do not even know they are dogmas.

It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down... Why do we laugh? Because it is a grave religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.

He is a [sane] man who can have tragedy in his heart and comedy in his head.

There'd be a lot less scandal if people didn't idealize sin and pose as sinners.

I think the oddest thing about the advanced people is that, while they are always talking about things as problems, they have hardly any notion of what a real problem is.

If we are bound to improve, we need not trouble to improve. The pure doctrine of progress is the best of all reasons for not being a progressive.

Every time a man knocks on a brothel door, he is really knocking for God