A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything.

A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation.

Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.

Whether a man chooses to tell the truth in long sentences or short jokes is a problem analogous to whether he chooses to tell the truth in French or in German.

A turkey is more occult and awful than all the angels and archangels. In so far as God has partly revealed to us an angelic world, he has partly told us what an angel means. But God has never told us what a turkey means. And if you go and stare at a live turkey for an hour or two, you will find by the end of it that the enigma has rather increased than diminished.

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.

Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.