An operation that eventually kills may be technically successful, and the man may die cured; and so a description of religion thatshowed it to be madness might first show how real and warm it was, so that if it perished, at least it would perish understood.

To be bewitched is not to be saved, though all the magicians and aesthetes in the world should pronounce it to be so.

One real world is enough.

Nothing is inherently and invincibly young except spirit. And spirit can enter a human being perhaps better in the quiet of old age and dwell there more undisturbed than in the turmoil of adventure.

It is a great bond to dislike the same things.

Each religion, so dear to those whose life it sanctifies, and fulfilling so necessary a function in the society that has adopted it, necessarily contradicts every other religion, and probably contradicts itself.

A man is morally free when, in full possession of his living humanity, he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity.