Hell is God's great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.

So far as a man may be proud of a religion rooted in humility, I am very proud of my religion; I am especially proud of those parts of it that are most commonly called superstition. I am proud of being fettered by antiquated dogmas and enslaved by dead creeds (as my journalistic friends repeat with so much pertinacity), for I know very well that it is the heretical creeds that are dead, and that it is only the reasonable dogma that lives long enough to be called antiquated.

Why be something to everybody when you can be everything to somebody?

The past is democratic, because it is a people. The future is despotic, because it is a caprice. Every man is alone in his prediction, just as each man is alone in a dream.

It is always the secure who are humble.

War is not the best way of settling differences; it is the only way of preventing their being settled for you.

Cleanliness is not next to godliness nowadays, for cleanliness is made an essential and godliness is regarded as an offence.