Dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a drug and not as a drink.

Humility is the luxurious art of reducing ourselves to a point, not to a small thing or a large one, but to a thing with no size at all, so that to it all the cosmic things are what they really are - of immeasurable stature.

The telescope makes the world smaller; it is only the microscope that makes it larger.

Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.

Liberty is the very last idea that seems to occur to anybody, in considering any political or social proposal. It is only necessary for anybody for any reason to allege any evidence of any evil in any human practice, for people instantly to suggest that the practice should be suppressed by the police.

And though St. John saw many strange monsters in his vision, he saw no creature so wild as one of his own commentators.

It's not the world that's got so much worse but the news coverage that's got so much better.