Research is the search of people who don't know what they want.

Because our expression is imperfect we need friendship to fill up the imperfections.

The English are no nearer than they were a hundred years ago to knowing what Jefferson really meant when he said that God had created all men equal.

Any one of the strange laws we suffer is a compromise between a fad and a vested interest.

Our civilization has decided that determining the guilt or innocence of men is a thing too important to be trusted to trained men. When it wants a library catalogued, or the solar system discovered, or any trifle of that kind, it uses up its specialists. But when it wishes anything done which is really serious, it collects twelve of the ordinary men standing round. The same thing was done, if I remember right, by the Founder of Christianity.

The determining bulk of Scotch people had heard of golf ever since they had heard of God and often considered the two as of equal importance.

The modern world is filled with men who hold dogmas so strongly that they do not even know they are dogmas.