Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.

When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.

Why do all the clerks and navvies in the railway trains look so sad and tired, so very sad and tired? I will tell you. It is because they know that the train is going right. It is because they know that whatever place they have taken a ticket for that place they will reach. It is because after they have passed Sloane Square they know that the next station must be Victoria, and nothing but Victoria. Oh, their wild rapture! oh, their eyes like stars and their souls again in Eden, if the next station were unaccountably Baker Street!

Atheism is indeed the most daring of all dogmas . . . for it is the assertion of a universal negative.

Silence is the unbearable repartee.

Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.

It is largely because the free-thinkers, as a school, have hardly made up their minds whether they want to be more optimist or more pessimist than Christianity that their small but sincere movement has failed.