“The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover she is a step-mother.”

The evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link except the fact that it is missing.

Thanks are the highest form of thought.

At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.

There is less difference than many suppose between the ideal Socialist system, in which the big businesses are run by the State, and the present Capitalist system, in which the State is run by the big businesses.

The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice

When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.

But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.

The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.

Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.

If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments

The test of happiness is gratitude.

Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.

Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.

It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.

One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

The greatest astonishment of my life was the discovery that the man who does the work is not the man who gets rich.

Modern man is not the man who goes off to discover himself, his secrets, and his hidden truth; he is a man who tries to invest himself.

The ‘Enlightenment, which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.

To know how to wonder and question is the first step of the mind toward discovery.

Maybe the target nowadays is not to discover what we are but to refuse what we are.

Be nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.

Discovered deeply within the depths of much suffering came forth my love of poetry.

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they can see nothing but sea.