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.

I might inform those humanitarians who have a nightmare of new and needless babies (for some humanitarians have that sort of horror of humanity) that if the recent decline in the birth-rate were continued for a certain time, it might end in there being no babies at all; which would console them very much.

Take not thy thunder from us, but take away our pride.

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

In truth, there are only two kinds of people; those who accept dogma and know it, and those who accept dogma and don't know it.

The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.