Instead of looking at books and pictures about the New Testament I looked at the New Testament. There I found an account, not in the least of a person with his hair parted in the middle or his hands clasped in appeal, but of an extraordinary being with lips of thunder and acts of lurid decision, flinging down tables, casting out devils, passing with the wild secrecy of the wind from mountain isolation to a sort of dreadful demagogy; a being who often acted like an angry god — and always like a god.

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

If there were no God, there would be no atheists.

There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.

No animal ever invented anything as bad as drunkenness - or so good as drink.

I've searched all the parks in all the cities - and found no statues of Committees.

The theory of free speech, that truth is so much larger and stranger and more many-sided than we know of, that it is very much better at all costs to hear everyone's account of it, is a theory which has been justified on the whole by experiment, but which remains a very daring and even a very surprising theory. It is really one of the great discoveries of the modern time.