You have not wasted your time; you have helped to save the world. We are not buffoons, but very desperate men at war with a vast conspiracy.

Modern intelligence won't accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.

The old restriction meant that only the orthodox were allowed to discuss religion. Modern liberty means that nobody is allowed to discuss it. Good taste, the last and vilest of human superstitions, has succeeded in silencing us where all the rest have failed.

The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.

A large section of the intelligentsia seems wholly devoid of intelligence.

When a politician is in opposition he is an expert on the means to some end; and when he is in office he is an expert on the obstacles to it.

And it did for one wild moment cross my mind that, perhaps, those might not be the very best judges of the relation of religion to happiness who, by their own account, had neither one nor the other.