And I will add this point of merely personal experience of humanity: when men have a real explanation they explain it, eagerly and copiously and in common speech, as Huxley freely gave it when he thought he had it. When they have no explanation to offer, they give short dignified replies, disdainful of the ignorance of the multitude.

Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant

Sticking to one woman is a small price to pay for so much as having seen one woman.

Wherever there is animal worship, there is human sacrifice.

It is a quaint comment on the notion that the English are practical and the French merely visionary, that we were rebels in arts while they were rebels in arms.

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

Gratitude, being nearly the greatest of human duties, is also nearly the most difficult.