When it was first proposed to establish laboratories at Cambridge, Todhunter, the mathematician, objected that it was unnecessary for students to see experiments performed, since the results could be vouched for by their teachers, all of them of the highest character, and many of them clergymen of the Church of England.

I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.

It is in the nature of imperialism that citizens of the imperial power are always among the last to know-or care-about circumstances in the colonies.

Beware the man of the single book

I can't tell whether I am living in a dream or a nightmare.

You must believe that you can help bring about a better world. A good society is produced only by good individuals, just as truly as a majority in a presidential election is produced by the votes of single electors.

Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth