Dogma demands authority, rather than intelligent thought, as the source of opinion; it requires persecution of heretics and hostility to unbelievers; it asks of its disciples that they should inhibit natural kindliness in favor of systematic hatred.

Organic life, we are told, has developed gradually from the protozoon to the philosopher, and this development, we are assured, is indubitably an advance. Unfortunately it is the philosopher, not the protozoon, who gives us this assurance.

Love, children, and work, are the great sources of fertilizing contact between the individual and the rest of the world.

No great achievement is possible without persistent work.

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.

Brief and powerless is man's life; on him and all his race the slow, sure doom falls pitiless and dark.

Every sane and sensible and quiet thing we do is absolutely ignored by the press.