Bigotry may be roughly defined as the anger of men who have no opinions.

A great curse has fallen upon modern life with the discovery of the vastness of the word Education.

Science boasts of the distance of its stars; of the terrific remoteness of the things of which it has to speak. But poetry and religion always insist upon the proximity, the almost menacing closeness of the things with which they are concerned. Always the Kingdom of Heaven is "At Hand."

This is the age in which thin and theoretic minorities can cover and conquer unconscious and untheoretic majorities.

The modern materialists are not permitted to doubt; they are forbidden to believe.

Puritanism was an honourable mood; it was a noble fad. In other words, it was a highly creditable mistake.

...the primary paradox that man is superior to all the things around him and yet is at their mercy.