A Unitarian is a person who believes in at most one God.

Heaven knows what seeming nonsense may not tomorrow be demonstrated truth.

As society is now constituted, a literal adherence to the moral precepts scattered throughout the Gospels would mean sudden death.

Our rate of progress is such that an individual human being, of ordinary length of life, will be called on to face novel situations which find no parallel in his past. The fixed person, for the fixed duties, who, in older societies was such a godsend, in the future will be a public danger.

Nature, even in the act of satisfying anticipation, often provides a surprise.

Through and through the world is infested with quantity: To talk sense is to talk quantities. It is no use saying the nation is large. . . . How large? It is no use saying the radium is scarce. . . . How scarce? You cannot evade quantity. You may fly to poetry and music, and quantity and number will face you in your rhythms and your octaves.

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.