[There has been] every kind of cruelty practiced upon all sorts of people in the name of religion.

All knowledge, we feel, must be built up upon our instinctive beliefs; and if these are rejected, nothing is left.

Beggars do not envy millionaires, though of course they will envy other beggars who are more successful.

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.

I used, when I was younger, to take my holidays walking. I would cover 25 miles a day, and when the evening came I had no need of anything to keep me from boredom, since the delight of sitting amply sufficed.

John Locke invented common sense, and only Englishmen have had it ever since!

The moral thing I should wish to say to them is very simple; I should say: "Love is wise - Hatred is foolish." In this world, which is getting more and more closely interconnected, we have to learn to tolerate each other.