The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic.

I don't know if there are men on the moon, but if there are they must be using the earth as their lunatic asylum

Sister, you're trying to keep me alive as an old curiosity, but I'm done, I'm finished, I'm going to die.

A genius is a person who is seeing further and probing deeper than other people has a different set of ethical valuations from their and has energy enough to give effect to this extra vision and its valuations in whatever manner best suits his or her

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.

Reformers have the idea that change can be achieved by brute sanity.

Unbounded hopes were placed on each successive extension of the electoral franchise, culminating in the enfranchisement of women.These hopes have been disappointed, because the voters, male and female, being politically untrained and uneducated, have (a) no grasp of constructive measures; (b) loathe taxation as such; (c) dislike being governed at all; and (d) dread and resent any extension of official interference as an encroachment on their personal liberty.