It is the weak man who urges compromise - never the strong man.

When we really live truth, we will cease to talk about it.

The more one knows, the more one simplifies.

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

The newspapers print what the people want, and thus does the savage still swing his club and flourish his spear.

Orthodoxy: That peculiar condition where the patient can neither eliminate an old idea nor absorb a new one.

When you once attribute effects to the will of a personal God, you have let in a lot of little gods and evils - then sprites, fairies, dryads, naiads, witches, ghosts and goblins, for your imagination is reeling, riotous, drunk, afloat on the flotsam of superstition. What you know then doesn't count. You just believe, and the more your believe the more do you plume yourself that fear and faith are superior to science and seeing.