Tobacco . . . is not prohibited in the Scriptures, though, as Samuel Butler points out, St. Paul would no doubt have denounced it if he had known of it.

Many orthodox people speak as though it were the business of sceptics to disprove received dogmas rather than of dogmatists to prove them. This is, of course, a mistake.

Teachers are more than any other group the guardians of civilization.

Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.

Moral indignation is one of the most harmful forces in the modern world, the more so as it can always be diverted to sinister uses by those who control propaganda.

I am not myself in any degree ashamed of having changed my opinions.

If we were all given by magic the power to read each other's thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships.