Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.

Religion is a great force - the only real motive force in the world; but what you fellows don't understand is that you must get at a man through his own religion and not through yours.

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances.

What is really important in Man is the part of him that we do not understand. Of much of it we are not even conscious, just as we are not normally conscious of keeping up our circulation by our heart-pump, though if we neglect it we die.

It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.

There is nothing in religion but fiction.

A fool-proof method for sculpting an elephant: first, get a huge block of marble; then you chip away everything that doesn't look like an elephant.