The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.

We can be almost certain of being wrong about the future, if we are wrong about the past.

Bigotry is an incapacity to conceive seriously the alternative to a proposition.

Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am not, as will be seen, in any sense attacking logic: I only say that this danger does lie in logic, not in imagination.

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

No animal ever invented anything as bad as drunkenness - or so good as drink.

Ivory may not be so white as snow, but the whole Arctic continent does not make ivory black.