Jokes are generally honest. Complete solemnity is always dishonest.

There is no great harm in the theorist who makes up a new theory to fit a new event. But the theorist who starts with a false theory and then sees everything as making it come true is the most dangerous enemy of human reason.

[Fairy tales] make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water.

People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.

Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.

Whatever else we may say of our own age, for good or evil, nobody is likely to call it an Age of Reason.

But perhaps God is strong enough to exult in monotony. It is possible that God says every morning, "Do it again" to the sun.; and every evening, "Do it again" to the moon. It may not be automatic monotony that makes all daisies alike; it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never gotten tired of making them. It may be that He has the eternal appetite of infancy; for we have sinned and grown old, and our Father is younger than we.