God very seldom succeeds. He has very nearly everything against him, of course.

It was a book to kill time for those who liked it better dead.

what about Christianity? Are we right in the face of so long a record of its poverty in international achievement, to keep invoking it as a standard, almost synonymous with civilization?

To lunch with the important ... that should be the daily goal of those for whom life is not a playground but a ladder.

Churches are wonderful and beautiful, and they are vehicles for religion, but no Church can have more than a very little of the truth.

Never approach a friend's wife or girlfriend with mischief as your goal... unless she's really attractive.

There's one thing about freedom ... each generation of people begins by thinking they've got it for the first time in history, and ends by being sure the generation younger than themselves have too much of it. It can't really always have been increasing at the rate people suppose, or there would be more of it by now.