Theology is simply that part of religion that requires brains.

I should favour anything that would increase the present enormous authority of women and their creative action in their own homes. The average woman...is a despot; the average man is a serf.

Even in an empire of atheists the dead man is always sacred.

We all feel the riddle of the earth without anyone to point it out. The mystery of life is the plainest part of it. The clouds and curtains of darkness, the confounding vapors, these are the daily weather of this world.

In truth, there are only two kinds of people; those who accept dogma and know it, and those who accept dogma and don't know it.

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

Let a man walk ten miles steadily on a hot summer's day along a dusty English road, and he will soon discover why beer was invented.