If the wicked flourish and the fittest survive, Nature must be the god of rascals.

The confusing of marriage with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other single error.

A man who loses his money gains, at the least, experience, and sometimes, something better.

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.

Nobel Prize money is a life-belt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety.

Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.

The more ignorant men are, the more convinced are they that their little parish and their little chapel is an apex to which civilization and philosophy has painfully struggled up the pyramid of time from a desert of savagery.