If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.

God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.

The one perfectly divine thing, the one glimpse of God's paradise given on earth, is to fight a losing battle - and not lose it.

I've been to every park in every city and not seen a statue to a committee.

The atheist is not interested in anything except attacks on atheism.

Blessed is he that expecteth nothing, for he shall be gloriously surprised.

An enormous amount of modern ingenuity is expended on finding defences for the indefensible conduct of the powerful. As I have said above, these defences generally exhibit themselves most emphatically in the form of appeals to physical science. And of all the forms in which science, or pseudo-science, has come to the rescue of the rich and stupid, there is none so singular as the singular invention of the theory of races.