There are no new lies, no new heresies. Man is simply not that creative.

I would never commit the positively anti-social action of robbing a bank, or worse still, working in one.

Science boasts of the distance of its stars; of the terrific remoteness of the things of which it has to speak. But poetry and religion always insist upon the proximity, the almost menacing closeness of the things with which they are concerned. Always the Kingdom of Heaven is "At Hand."

If you happen to read fairy tales, you will observe that one idea runs from one end of them to the other--the idea that peace and happiness can only exist on some condition. This idea, which is the core of ethics, is the core of the nursery-tales.

The prophet and the quack are alike admired for a generation, and admired for the wrong reasons.

The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.

If the apple hit Newton’s nose, Newton’s nose hit the apple.