Religion is what the individual does with his own solitariness.

I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke, and I am suspicious of those who aren't.

Vigorous societies harbour a certain extravagance of objectives.

The antithesis between a technical and a liberal education is fallacious. There can be no adequate technical education which is not liberal, and no liberal education which is not technical.

Routine is the god of every social system; it is the seventh heaven of business, the essential component in the success of every factory, the ideal of every statesman. The social machine should run like clockwork.

The main importance of Francis Bacon's influence does not lie in any peculiar theory of inductive reasoning which he happened to express, but in the revolt against second-hand information of which he was a leader.

The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.