If I did not believe in God, I should still want my doctor, my lawyer and my banker to do so.

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.

Big Business and State Socialism are very much alike, especially Big Business.

There must be some good in the life of battle, for so many good men have enjoyed being soldiers.

All real democracy is an attempt like that of a jolly hostess to bring the shy people out.

Then I only wondered who put the toys in the stocking; now I wonder who put the stocking by the bed, and the bed in the room, and the room in the house, and the house on the planet, and the great planet in the void.

They say travel broadens the mind, but you must have the mind.