The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.

Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?

There is no logical connection between flying and laying eggs.

We are like the penny, because we have the image of the king stamped on us, the divine king.

The past is not what it was.

I defy anybody to say what are the rights of a citizen, if they do not include the control of his own diet in relation to his own health.

The last few decades have been marked by a special cultivation of the romance of the future. We seem to have made up our minds to misunderstand what has happened; and we turn, with a sort of relief, to stating what will happen-which is apparently much easier...The modern mind is forced towards the future by a certain sense of fatigue, not unmixed with terror, with which it regards the past.