Not only does "orthodox" no longer mean being right, it practically means being wrong.

If you convey to a woman that something ought to be done, there is always a dreadful danger that she will suddenly do it.

When the chord of monotony is stretched to its tightest, it breaks with the sound of a song.

Every sane man recognises that unlimited liberty is anarchy, or rather is nonentity. The civic idea of liberty is to give the citizen a province of liberty; a limitation within which a citizen is a king.

The modern mind will accept nothing on authority, but will accept anything on no authority. Say that the Bible or the Pope says so and it will be dismissed without further examination. But preface your remark with "I think I heard somewhere," or, try but fail to remember the name of some professor who might have said "such-and-such," and it will be immediately accepted as an unshakable fact.

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

In the struggle for existence, it is only on those who hang on for ten minutes after all is hopeless, that hope begins to dawn.