If the world grows to worldly, it can be rebuked by the Church; but if the Church grows to worldly, it cannot be adequately rebuked for worldlyness by the world.

Earnest Freethinkers need not worry themselves so much about the persecutions of the past. Before the Liberal idea is dead or triumphant we shall see wars and persecutions the like of which the world has never seen.

The modern world... has no notion except that of simplifying something by destroying nearly everything.

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth; this has been exactly reversed.

Progress is the mother of problems.

There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell.