The churches must learn humility as well as teach it.

Democracy is a word all public men use and none understand.

Geniuses are horrid, intolerant, easily offended, sleeplessly self-conscious men, who expect their wives to be angels with no further business in life than to pet and worship their husbands. Even at the best they are not comfortable men to live with; and a perfect husband is one who is perfectly comfortable to live with.

Medical science is as yet very imperfectly differentiated from common cure-mongering witchcraft

There is nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school.

Religion is a good invention in times of stress.

The price of ability does not depend on merit but on supply and demand.