humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle

I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice

The objection to fairy stories is that they tell children there are dragons. But children have always known there are dragons. Fairy stories tell children that dragons can be killed.

It is largely because the free-thinkers, as a school, have hardly made up their minds whether they want to be more optimist or more pessimist than Christianity that their small but sincere movement has failed.

The full value of this life can only be got by fighting; the violent take it by storm. And if we have accepted everything we have missed something - war. This life of ours is a very enjoyable fight, but a very miserable truce.

The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice.

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.