I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.

To fear love is to fear life.

America... where law and custom alike are based upon the dreams of spinsters...

Punctuality is a quality the need of which is bound up with social co-operation. It has nothing to do with the relation of the soul to God, or with mystic insight, or with any of the matters with which the more elevated and spiritual moralists are concerned.

Skilled work, of no matter what kind, is only done well by those who take a certain pleasure in it, quite apart from its utility, either to themselves in earning a living, or to the world through its outcome.

I did not, however, commit suicide, because I wished to know more of mathematics.

We have almost reached the point where praise of rationality is held to mark a man as an old fogey regrettably surviving from a bygone age.