The strangest whim has seized me ... After all I think I will not hang myself today.

The people has no definite disbelief in the temples of theology. The people has a very fiery and practical disbelief in the temples of physical science.

Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.

I never said a word against eminent men of science. What I complain of is a vague popular philosophy which supposes itself to be scientific when it is really nothing but a sort of new religion and an uncommonly nasty one. When people talked about the fall of man, they knew they were talking about a mystery, a thing they didn't understand. Now they talk about the survival of the fittest: they think they do understand it, whereas they have not merely no notion, they have an elaborately false notion of what the words mean.

People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.

humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle

If it's worth doing, it's worth doing badly. (on not perfectionism to put things off) .