Even if we could be certain that one of the world's religions were perfectly true, given the sheer number of conflicting faiths on offer, every believer should expect damnation purely as a matter of probability.

Grasshopper always wrong in argument with chicken.

In the ordinary business of life punctuality is . . . necessary.

War can only be abolished by the establishment of a world government.

Throughout the long period of religious doubt, I had been rendered very unhappy by the gradual loss of belief, but when the process was completed, I found to my surprise that I was quite glad to be done with the whole subject.

But I simply can't stand a view limited to this earth, I feel life is so small unless it has windows into other worlds...I like mathematics largely because it is not human.

The wise use of leisure, it must be conceded, is a product of civilization and education.