Faith means believing the unbelievable.

Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.

London is a riddle. Paris is an explanation.

The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

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

Price is a crazy and incalculable thing, while Value is an intrinsic and indestructible thing.

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.