Christianity even when watered down is hot enough to boil all modern society to rags.

There is something to be said for every error; but, whatever may be said for it, the most important thing to be said about it is that it is erroneous.

The eagle has no liberty; he only has loneliness.

The comedy of man survives the tragedy of man.

The supreme adventure is being born. There we do walk suddenly into a splendid and startling trap... When we step into the family, by the act of being born, we do step into a world which is incalculable, into a world which has its own strange laws, into a world which could do without us, into a world we have not made. In other words, when we step into the family we step into a fairy-tale.

Earnest Freethinkers need not worry themselves so much about the persecutions of the past. Before the Liberal idea is dead or triumphant we shall see wars and persecutions the like of which the world has never seen.

And it did for one wild moment cross my mind that, perhaps, those might not be the very best judges of the relation of religion to happiness who, by their own account, had neither one nor the other.