We should have had socialism already, but for the socialists, am quite willing to drop the name if dropping it will help me to get the thing.

Everything I eat has been proved by some doctor or other to be a deadly poison, and everything I don't eat has been proved to be indispensable for life. But I go marching on.

Every Englishman believes that Handel now occupies an important position in heaven. If so, le bon Dieu must feel toward him very much as Louis Treize felt toward Richelieu.

The notion that persons should be safe from extermination as long as they do not commit willful murder, or levy war against the Crown, or kidnap, or throw vitriol, is not only to limit social responsibility unnecessarily, and to privilege the large range of intolerable misconduct that lies outside them, but to divert attention from the essential justification for extermination, which is always incorrigible social incompatibility and nothing else.

There is not one single established religion that an intelligent, educated man can believe.

We veneer civilization by doing unkind things in a kind way.

I am a sort of collector of religions: and the curious thing is that I find I can believe in them all.