What was exciting in the Victorian Age, would leave a man of franker epoch quite unmoved. The more prudes restrict the permissible degree of sexual appeal, the less is required to make such an appeal effective.

The very best proof that something can be done is that someone has already done it.

Cynicism such as one finds very frequently among the most highly educated young men and women of the West, results from the combination of comfort and powerlessness.

The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts - the less you know the hotter you get.

Broadly speaking, Protestants like to be good and have invented theology in order to keep themselves so, whereas Catholics like to be bad and have invented theology in order to keep their neighbors good. Hence, the social character of Catholicism and the individual character of Protestantism.

If the West can claim superiority in anything, it is . . . in science and scientific technique.

None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.