We are more gullible and superstitious today than we were in the Middle Ages, and an example of modern credulity is the widespread belief that the Earth is round. The average man can advance not a single reason for thinking that the Earth is round. He merely swallows this theory because there is something about it that appeals to the twentieth century mentality.

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

It is doubtless wise, when a reform is introduced, to try to persuade the British public that it is not a reform at all; but appearances must be kept up to some extent at least.

A man's interest in the world is only an overflow from his interest in himself.

Science can never solve one problem without raising ten more problems.

My way of joking is to tell the truth

Gentle Jesus, meek and mild' is a snivelling modern invention, with no warrant in the gospels.