These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.

No sceptical philosopher can ask any questions that may not equally be asked by a tired child on a hot afternoon.

The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.

Nothing can ever overcome that one enormous sex (female) superiority that even the male child is born closer to his mother than to his father.

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.

Some of the most frantic lies on the face of life are told with modesty and restraint; for the simple reason that only modesty and restraint will save them.

. . . For friendship implies individuality; whereas comradeship really implies the temporary subordination, if not the temporary swamping of individuality. Friends are the better for being two; but comrades are the better for being two million.