It is assumed that the skeptic has no bias; whereas he has a very obvious bias in favour of skepticism.

The old religionist cried out for his god. The new religionist cries out for some god to be his.

Modern man is educated to understand foreign languages and misunderstand foreigners.

It is true that there is a thing crudely called charity, which means charity to the deserving poor; but charity to the deserving is not charity at all, but justice. It is the undeserving who require it, and the ideal either does not exist at all, or exists wholly for them.

Man must have just enough faith in himself to have adventures, and just enough doubt of himself to enjoy them.

It is cold anarchy to say that all men are to meddle in all men'smarriages. It is cold anarchy to say that any doctor may seize andsegregate anyone he likes. But it is not anarchy to say that a fewgreat hygienists might enclose or limit the life of all citizens,as nurses do with a family of children. It is not anarchy, it istyranny; but tyranny is a workable thing.

Contemporary society has become dry, not for lack of wonders but for lack of wonder.