It is still bad taste to be an avowed atheist. But now it is equally bad taste to be an avowed Christian.

The man who lives in a small community lives in a much larger world... The reason is obvious. In a large community we can choose our companions. In a small community our companions are chosen for us.

The truth is that it is our attitude towards children that is right, and our attitude towards grown-up people that is wrong.

It is the first law of practical courage. To be in the weakest camp is to be in the strongest school.

I like the Americans for a great many reasons. I like them because even the modern thing called industrialism has not entirely destroyed in them the very ancient thing called democracy. I like them because they have a respect for work which really curbs the human tendency to snobbishness.

There is only one thing certain and that is that nothing is certain

The truth is, of course, that the curtness of the Ten Commandments is an evidence, not of the gloom and narrowness of a religion, but, on the contrary, of its liberality and humanity. It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted, and only a few things are forbidden.