Bigotry is an incapacity to conceive seriously the alternative to a proposition.

Circumstances break men's bones; it has never been shown that they break men's optimism.

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

I have myself a poetical enthusiasm for pigs, and the paradise of my fancy is one where pigs have wings. But it is only men, especially wise men, who discuss whether pigs can fly; we have no particular proof that pigs ever discuss it.

The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle

The sceptic ultimately undermines democracy (1) because he can see no significance in death and such things of a literal equality; (2) because he introduces different first principles, making debate impossible: and debate is the life of democracy; (3) because the fading of the images of sacred persons leaves a man too prone to be a respecter of earthly persons; (4) because there will be more, not less, respect for human rights if they can be treated as divine rights.

The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.