We all have a little weakness, which is very natural but rather misleading, for supposing that this epoch must be the end of the world because it will be the end of us. How future generations will get on without us is indeed, when we come to think of it, quite a puzzle. But I suppose they will get on somehow, and may possibly venture to revise our judgments as we have revised earlier judgments.

Nobody understands the nature of the Church, or the ringing note of the creed descending from antiquity, who does not realize that the whole world once very nearly died of broadmindedness and the brotherhood of all religions.

The whole truth is generally the ally of virtue; a half-truth is always the ally of some vice.

You cannot grow a beard in a moment of passion.

Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.

The evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link except the fact that it is missing.

Modern intelligence won't accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.