The essence of the liberal outlook lies not in what opinions are held, but in how they are held; instead of being held dogmatically, they are held tentatively, and with a consciousness that new evidence may at any moment lead to their abandonment.

We are told that Sin consists in acting contrary to God's commands, but we are also told that God is omnipotent. If He is, nothing contrary to His will can occur; therefore when the sinner disobeys His commands, He must have intended this to happen.

If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.

I must, before I die, find some way to say the essential thing that is in me, that I have never said yet -- a thing that is not love or hate or pity or scorn, but the very breath of life, fierce and coming from far away, bringing into human life the vastness and the fearful passionless force of non-human things.

The thing that I should wish to obtain from money would be leisure with security.

Liberty is the right to do what I like; licence, the right to do what you like.

Berkeley retains the merit of having shown that the existence of matter is capable of being denied without absurdity.