A nation is not going mad when it does extravagant things, so long as it does them in an extravagant spirit. But whenever we see things done wildly, but taken tamely, then the State is growing insane.

The modern world... has no notion except that of simplifying something by destroying nearly everything.

When you break the big laws, you do not get liberty; you do not even get anarchy. You get the small laws.

Mr. McCabe thinks that I am not serious but only funny, because Mr. McCabe thinks that funny is the opposite of serious. Funny is the opposite of not funny and nothing else.

When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.

Men may keep a sort of level of good, but no man has ever been able to keep on one level of evil.

Pride consists in a man making his personality the only test, instead of making truth the test. The sceptic feels himself too large to measure life by the largest things; and ends by measuring it by the smallest thing of all.