The world is shocked, or amused, by the sight of saintly old people hindering in the name of morality the removal of obvious brutalities from a legal system.

The real history does not get written, because it is not in people's brains but in their nerves and vitals.

What we perceive as the present is the vivid fringe of memory tinged with anticipation.

Dogmatism is the anti-Christ of learning.

The tragedy of the world is that those who are imaginative have but slight experience, and those who are experienced have feeble imaginations.

Religion will not regain its old power until it can face change in the same spirit as does science.

An unflinching determination to take the whole evidence into account is the only method of preservation against the fluctuating extremes of fashionable opinion.