Where there is no religion, hypocrisy becomes good taste.

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

Dogmatic toleration is nonsense: I would no more tolerate the teaching of Calvinism to children if I had power to persecute it than the British Raj tolerated suttee in India. Every civilized authority must draw a line between the tolerable and the intolerable.

You have a choice of trusting the natural stability of gold, or the honesty and intelligence of members of government.

The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer.

Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.

At present there is not a single credible established religion in the world.