Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion go hand in hand.

The best life is the one in which the creative impulses play the largest part and the possessive impulses the smallest.

Your writing is never as good as you hoped; but never as bad as you feared.

What is matter? Never mind.

The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.

So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.

Change is scientific; progress is ethical; change is indubitable, whereas progress is a matter of controversy.