For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.

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

A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong that he feels more.

It is not merely true that a creed unites men. Nay, a difference of creed unites men - so long as it is a clear difference. A boundary unites. Many a magnanimous Moslem and chivalrous Crusader must have been nearer to each other, because they were both dogmatists, than any two agnostics. "I say God is One," and "I say God is One but also Three," that is the beginning of a good quarrelsome, manly friendship.

I am not fighting a hopeless fight. People who have fought in real fights don't, as a rule.

The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason.

Men did not love Rome because she was great. She was great because they had loved her.