He will see himself and life and the world as truly as our human limitations will permit; realizing the brevity and minuteness of human life, he will realize also that in individual minds is concentrated whatever of value the known universe contains.

When Benjamin Franklin invented the lightning-rod, the clergy, both in England and America, with enthusiastic support of George III, condemned it as an impious attempt to defeat the will of God.

It is not known why the Lord made the human body as he did, since one might suppose that omnipotence could have made it such as would not have shocked the nice people.

Unless a man has been taught what to do with success after getting it, the achievement of it must inevitably leave him a prey to boredom.

When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than others.

Nine-tenths of the activities of a modern Government are harmful; therefore the worse they are performed, the better.

This illustrates an important truth, namely, that the worse your logic, the more interesting the consequences to which it gives rise.