It is the highest creatures who take the longest to mature, and are the most helpless during their immaturity.

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

Most people do not pray; they only beg.

I do not, like the Fundamentalists, believe that creation stopped six thousand years ago after a week of hard work. Creation is going on all the time.

It is monstrous that custom should force us to display our faces ostentatiously, however worn and wrinkled and mean they may be, whilst carefully concealing all our other parts, however shapely and well preserved.

O Lord! I don't know which is the worst of the country, the walking or the sitting at home with nothing to do.

Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farm-yard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chickens and calves and that men and women are not so completely enslaved as farm stock.