By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.

The need of exercise is a modern superstition, invented by people who ate too much and had nothing to think about.

If pain could have cured us we should long ago have been saved.

Man is a fighting animal; his thoughts are his banners, and it is a failure of nerve in him if they are only thoughts.

In any close society it is more urgent to restrain others than to be free oneself. Hence the tendency for the central authority to absorb and supersede such as are local or delegated.

Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.

Religion is the natural reaction of the imagination when confronted by the difficulties in a truculent world.