In a living society every day is a day of judgment; and its recognition as such is not the end of all things but the beginning ofa real civilization.

I'm sick of all the reasonable people: they see all the reasons for doing nothing

The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car.

Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt.

A socialist is somebody who doesn't have anything, and is ready to divide it up equally among everybody.

What is the matter with universities is that the students are school children, whereas it is of the very essence of university education that they should be adults.

The medieval doctors of divinity who did not pretend to settle how many angels could dance on the point of a needle cut a very poor figure as far as romantic credulity is concerned beside the modern physicists who have settled to the billionth of a millimetre every movement and position in the dance of the electrons. Not for worlds would I question the precise accuracy of these calculations or the existence of electrons (whatever they may be). The fate of Joan is a warning to me against such heresy.