If the world becomes pagan and perishes, the last man left alive would do well to quote the Iliad and die.

I don't need a church to tell me I'm wrong where I already know I'm wrong; I need a Church to tell me I'm wrong where I think I'm right

It is the decisive people who have become civilised; it is the indecisive, otherwise called the higher sceptics, or the idealistic doubters, who have remained barbarians.

I do not feel any contempt for an atheist, who is often a man limited and constrained by his own logic to a very sad simplification.

The man who says, 'my country right or wrong' is like the man who says, 'my mother drunk or sober'

The best kind of giving is thanksgiving.

Making the landlord and the tenant the same person has certain advantages, as that the tenant pays no rent, while the landlord does a little work.