All things are from God; and above all, reason and imagination and the great gifts of the mind. They are good in themselves; and we must not altogether forget their origin even in their perversion.

Men rush towards complexity, but they yearn towards simplicity. They try to be kings; but they dream of being shepherds.

When "everyone knows" that something is so, it is always more interesting and often illuminating to assumeexactly the opposite, and to see where that leads.

Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.

No man's really any good till he knows how bad he is, or might be.

It is true that there is a thing crudely called charity, which means charity to the deserving poor; but charity to the deserving is not charity at all, but justice. It is the undeserving who require it, and the ideal either does not exist at all, or exists wholly for them.

The atheist is not interested in anything except attacks on atheism.