Every one on the earth should believe that he has something to give to the world which cannot otherwise be given.

The real trouble with this world of ours is not that it is an unreasonable world, nor even that it is a reasonable one. The commonest kind of trouble is that it is nearly reasonable, but not quite. ... It looks just a little more mathematical and regular than it is; its exactitude is obvious, but its inexactitude is hidden; its wilderness lies in wait.

Tolerance is the virtue of those who don't believe anything.

Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.

But there is in everything a reasonable division of labour. I have written the book, and nothing on earth would induce me to read it.

It is the root of all religion that a man knows that he is nothing in order to thank God that he is something.

We do not need to get good laws to restrain bad people. We need to get good people to restrain us from bad laws.