The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.

In the conditions of modern life the rule is absolute, the race which does not value trained intelligence is doomed. Not all your heroism, not all your social charm, not all your wit, not all your victories on land or at sea, can move back the finger of fate. To-day we maintain ourselves. To-morrow science will have moved forward yet one more step, and there will be no appeal from the judgment which will then be pronounced on the uneducated.

Art heightens the sense of humanity. It gives an elation to feeling which is supernatural...A million sunsets will not spur us on towards civilization. It requires Art to evoke into consciousness the finite perfections which lie ready for human achievement.

Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

I consider Christianity to be one of the great disasters of the human race... It would be impossible to imagine anything more un - Christianlike than theology.

The learned tradition is not concerned with truth, but with the learned adjustment of learned statements of antecedent learned people.

...the only simplicity to be trusted is the simplicity to be found on the far side of complexity.