If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue.

In the main, and from the beginning of time, mysticism has kept men sane. The thing that has driven them mad was logic.

Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.

The modern world is a crowd of very rapid racing cars all brought to a standstill and stuck in a block of traffic.

Shall I tell you the secret of the whole world? It is that we have only known the back of the world. We see everything from behind, and it looks brutal. That is not a tree, but the back of a tree. That is not a cloud, but the back of a cloud. Cannot you see that everything is stooping and hiding a face? If we could only get round in front--

No man should leave in the universe anything of which he is afraid.

There are arguments for atheism, and they do not depend, and never did depend, upon science. They are arguable enough, as far as they go, upon a general survey of life; only it happens to be a superficial survey of life.