One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.

I still think sincere pessimism the unpardonable sin.

Whatever else we may say of our own age, for good or evil, nobody is likely to call it an Age of Reason.

There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.

The believers in miracles accept them (rightly or wrongly) because they have evidence for them. The disbelievers in miracles deny them (rightly or wrongly) because they have a doctrine against them.

How quickly revolutions grow old; and, worse still, respectable.

The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.