Almost all education has a political motive.

Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.

The sea, the stars, the night wind in waste places, mean more to me than even the human beings I love best.

Great God in Boots! – the ontological argument is sound!

The first dogma which I came to disbelieve was that of free will. It seemed to me that all notions of matter were determined by the laws of dynamics and could not therefore be influenced by human wills.

Protestants, from the first, have been distinguished from their opponents by what they do not believe; to throw over one more dogma is, therefore, merely to carry the movement one stage further. Moral fervor is the essence of the matter.

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