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

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

Admit at least one painful truth to yourself every day. Teach yourself to feel that life would still be worth living even if you were not immeasurably superior to all your friends. Exercises of this sort, prolonged through several years, will at last enable you to admit facts without flinching, and will, in so doing, free you from the empire of fear over a very large field.

The Ten Commandments should be headed like an examination paper: No more than six to be attempted.

The Church no longer contends that knowledge is in itself sinful, though it did so in its palmy days; but the acquisition of knowledge, even though not sinful, is dangerous, since it may lead to pride of intellect, and hence to a questioning of the Christian dogma.

The immense majority of intellectually eminent men disbelieve in the Christian religion, but they conceal the fact in public, because they are afraid of losing their incomes.

The sentiments of an adult are compounded of a kernel of instinct surrounded by a vast husk of education.