Jokes are generally honest. Complete solemnity is always dishonest.

A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.

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

The Darwinian movement has made no difference to mankind, except that, instead of talking unphilosophically about philosophy, they now talk unscientifically about science.

Men in England are ruled, at this minute by the clock, by brutes who refuse them bread, by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern, and therefore wish to enslave.

A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.

Freethinkers are occasionally thoughtful, though never free.