He may be mad, but there's method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It's what drives men mad, being methodical.

There is only one reason an intelligent person doesn't believe in miracles. He or she believes in materialism.

If I think the universe is triangular, and you think it is square, there cannot be room for two universes. We may argue politely, we may argue humanely, we may argue with great mutual benefit: but, obviously, we must argue.

When people impute special vices to the Christian Church, they seem entirely to forget that the world (which is the only other thing there is) has these vices much more. The Church has been cruel; but the world has been much more cruel. The Church has plotted; but the world has plotted much more. The Church has been superstitious; but it has never been so superstitious as the world is when left to itself.

The humorous look of children is perhaps the most endearing of all the bonds that hold the Cosmos together.

I would rather a boy learnt in the roughest school the courage to hit a politician, or gained in the hardest school the learning to refute him - rather than that he should gain in the most enlightened school the cunning to copy him.

We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed