If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

There may be no good reasons for very many opinions that are held with passion.

Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.

3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, 9 is a paradox; as is a paradox why the number 1 is not prime if it has no other divisors besides himself.

If the Church is not now as bad as the Soviet Government, that is due to the influence of those who attacked the Church

The Eugenic Society . . . is perpetually bewailing the fact that wage-earners breed faster than middle-class people.

[Regarding] the convention that clergymen are more virtuous than other men. Any average selection of mankind, set apart and told that it excels the rest in virtue, must tend to sink below the average.