Christianity got over the difficulty of combining furious opposites, by keeping them both, and keeping them both furious.

Life is indeed terribly complicated—to a man who has lost his principles.

All men thirst to confess their crimes more than tired beasts thirst for water; but they naturally object to confessing them while other people, who have also committed the same crimes, sit by and laugh at them.

Time and again, the Faith has to all appearances gone to the dogs. But each time, it was the dog that died.

Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.

The Darwinian movement has made no difference to mankind, except that, instead of talking unphilosophically about philosophy, they now talk unscientifically about science.

Progress is a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative.