Neither the Church nor modern public opinion condemns petting, provided it stops short at a certain point.

The Mormons had a divine revelation in favour of polygamy, but under pressure from the United States Government they discovered that the revelation was not binding.

The true spirit of delight...is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry.

When two great powers disagree about anything - it doesn't matter what - they must find a way to settle it somehow by arbitration or by negotiation, not by war or threat of war.

Philosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and achieved fewer results, than any other branch of learning.

If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important.

But if thought is to become the possession of many, not the privilege of the few, we must have done with fear. It is fear that holds men back - fear lest their cherished beliefs should prove delusions, fear lest the institutions by which they live should prove harmful, fear lest they themselves should prove less worthy of respect than they have supposed themselves to be.