The trouble with Christianity is, not that its failed, but that it's never been tried . . . not that it can't remake the world, but that it's difficult.

Soldiers have many faults, but they have one redeeming merit; they are never worshippers of force. Soldiers more than any other men are taught severely and systematically that might is not right. The fact is obvious. The might is in the hundred men who obey. The right (or what is held to be right) is in the one man who commands them.

When learned men begin to use their reason, then I generally discover that they haven't got any.

When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.

Employers will give time to eat, time to sleep; they are in terror of a time to think.

If you happen to read fairy tales, you will observe that one idea runs from one end of them to the other--the idea that peace and happiness can only exist on some condition. This idea, which is the core of ethics, is the core of the nursery-tales.

When men cease to believe in God, they will believe in anything