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

We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.

The whole truth is generally the ally of virtue; a half-truth is always the ally of some vice.

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.

Oscar Wilde said that sunsets were not valued because we could not pay for sunsets. But Oscar Wilde was wrong; we can pay for sunsets. We can pay for them by not being Oscar Wilde.

What we call emancipation is always and of necessity simply the free choice of the soul between one set of limitations and another.

A great deal of contemporary criticism reads to me like a man saying, 'Of course I do not like green cheese. I am very fond of brown sherry.