It is largely because the free-thinkers, as a school, have hardly made up their minds whether they want to be more optimist or more pessimist than Christianity that their small but sincere movement has failed.

He did not know the way things were going: he was too Victorian to understand the Victorian epoch. He did not know enough ignorant people to have heard the new…

He was, if ever there was one, an inspired poet. I do not think it the highest sort of poet. And you never discover who is an inspired poet until the inspirati…

The central idea of poetry is the idea of guessing right, like a child.

I do know that there are some things that exist in this world that you just can't prove. That could be the case with God or whoever might be up there, but I do…

Granted, religion is wishful thinking, but there is no other kind of thinking.

All religions are equally sublime to the ignorant, useful to the politician, and ridiculous to the philosopher. -- Quoted by Ira D Cardiff, What Great Men Thin…