The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder.

At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper. . . .

The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.

Youth is always too serious, and just now it is too serious about frivolity.

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.

It is quite an old-fashioned fallacy to suppose that our objection to scepticism is that it removes the discipline from life. Our objection to scepticism is that it removes the motive power. Materialism is not a thing which destroys mere restraint. Materialism itself is the great restraint.

When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.