The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.

There are a great many good people, and a great many sane people here this afternoon. Unfortunately, by a kind of coincidence, all the good people are mad, and all the sane people are wicked.

Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant

We do not need to get good laws to restrain bad people. We need to get good people to restrain us from bad laws.

It is because artists do not practise, patrons do not patronize, crowds do not assemble to reverently worship the great work of Doing Nothing, that the world has lost its philosophy and even failed to invent a new religion.

They hate kings, they hate priests, they hate soldiers, they hate sailors. They distrust men of science, they denounce the middle classes, they despair of working men, but they adore humanity. Only they always speak of humanity as if it were a curious foreign nation. They are dividing themselves more and more from men to exalt the strange race of mankind. They are ceasing to be human in the effort to be humane.

Lord! what a strange world in which a man cannot remain unique even by taking the trouble to go mad!