The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, because this world is a very alarming place. They dislike being alone because it is verily and indeed an awful idea to be alone. Barbarians fear the unknown for the same reason that Agnostics worship it - because it is a fact.

It is very good for a man to talk about what he does not understand; as long as he understands that he does not understand it.

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

What is the good of telling a community that it has every liberty except the liberty to make laws? The liberty to make laws is what constitutes a free people.

Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.

People decided that it was impossible to achieve any of the good of Socialism, but they comforted themselves by achieving all the bad.

My attitude toward progress has passed from antagonism to boredom. I have long ceased to argue with people who prefer Thursday to Wednesday because it is Thursday.