Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

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

The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.

Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.

'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.'

Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.

The problem of disbelieving in God is not that a man ends up believing nothing. Alas, it is much worse. He ends up believing anything.