The test of happiness is gratitude.

We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.

A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation.

If we could destroy custom at a blow and see the stars as a child sees them, we should need no other apocalypse.

We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press... It is not we who silence the press. It is the press who silences us.

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."

The modern mind will accept nothing on authority, but will accept anything on no authority. Say that the Bible or the Pope says so and it will be dismissed without further examination. But preface your remark with "I think I heard somewhere," or, try but fail to remember the name of some professor who might have said "such-and-such," and it will be immediately accepted as an unshakable fact.