When it wishes anything done which is really serious, it collects twelve of the ordinary men standing round. The same thing was done, if I remember right, by the Founder of Christianity.

There is no bigot like the atheist.

Civilization has run on ahead of the soul of man, and is producing faster than he can think and give thanks.

Half a truth is better than no politics.

When we look upon lives so human and yet so small, we feel as if we ourselves were enlarged to an embarrassing bigness of stature. We feel the same kind of obligation to these creatures that a deity might feel if he had created something that he could not understand.

Life is indeed terribly complicated—to a man who has lost his principles.

The modern world is filled with men who hold dogmas so strongly that they do not even know they are dogmas.