When a man tells you that he knows the exact truth about anything you are safe in inferring that he is an inexact man.

Nine-tenths of the activities of a modern Government are harmful; therefore the worse they are performed, the better.

Remote from human passions, remote even from the pitiful facts of nature, the generations have gradually created an ordered cosmos [mathematics], where pure thought can dwell in its natural home.

It's not what you have lost, but what you have left that counts.

All knowledge, we feel, must be built up upon our instinctive beliefs; and if these are rejected, nothing is left.

We may define "faith" as the firm belief in something for which there is no evidence. Where there is evidence, no one speaks of "faith." We do not speak of faith that two and two are four or that the earth is round. We only speak of faith when we wish to substitute emotion for evidence. The substitution of emotion for evidence is apt to lead to strife, since different groups, substitute different emotions.

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.