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

Wherever there is animal worship, there is human sacrifice.

The full potentialities of human fury cannot be reached until a friend of both parties tactfully intervenes.

We are passing into a social phase in which unless a heroic effort is made for human dignity and freedom, gold will be the sole method of government and therefore the sole standard of manners.

He had found the thing which the modern people call Impressionism, which is another name for that final scepticism which can find no floor to the universe.

There are two ways of dealing with nonsense in this world. One way is to put nonsense in the right place; as when people put nonsense into nursery rhymes. The other is to put nonsense in the wrong place; as when they put it into educational addresses, psychological criticisms, and complaints against nursery rhymes or other normal amusements of mankind.

The more truly we can see life as a fairytale, the more clearly the tale resolves itself into war with the dragon who is wasting fairyland.