Into every tidy scheme for arranging the pattern of human life, it is necessary to inject a certain dose of anarchism.

There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths.

Bolshevism is to be reckoned with Mohammedanism rather than with Christianity and Buddhism. Christianity and Buddhism are primarily personal religions, with mystical doctrines and a love of contemplation. Mohammedanism and Bolshevism are practical, social, unspiritual, concerned to win the empire of the world.

The whiter my hair becomes, the more ready people are to believe what I say.

I am aware that many divines are far more marvelous than I am, and that I cannot wholly appreciate merits so far transcending my own. Nevertheless, even after making allowances under this head, I cannot but think that Omnipotence operating through all eternity might have produced something better.

To be able to concentrate for a considerable time is essential to difficult achievement.

Either man will abolish war, or war will abolish man.