To do Mohammed justice, his main attack was against the idolatries of Asia. Only he thought, just as the Arians did and just as the Unitarians do, that he could attack them better with a greater approximation to plain theism. What distinguishes his heresy from anything like an Arian or Albigensian heresy is that, as it sprang up on the borders of Christendom, it could spread outwards to a barbaric world.

I will not call it my philosophy; for I did not make it. God and humanity made it; and it made me.

In real life the people who are most bigoted are the people who have no convictions at all.

The decay of society is praised by artists as the decay of a corpse is praised by worms.

It is true that I am of an older fashion; much that I love has been destroyed or sent into exile.

Our society is so abnormal that the normal man never dreams of having the normal occupation of looking after his own property. When he chooses a trade, he chooses one of the ten thousand trades that involve looking after other people's property.

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.