To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.
From William Ralph Inge
A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.
Originality is undetected plagiarism.
Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.
It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.
Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.
Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.
The enemies of freedom do not argue; they shout and they shoot.
No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism.
True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values.
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