The sceptics, like bees, give their one sting and die.

It is quite easy to see why a legend is treated, and ought to be treated, more respectfully than a book of history. The legend is generally made by the majority of people in the village, who are sane. The book is generally written by the one man in the village who is mad.

When a woman puts up her fists to a man she is putting herself in the only posture in which he is not afraid of her.

Progress is a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative.

As long as the vision of heaven is always changing, the vision of earth will be exactly the same. No ideal will remain long enough to be realized, or even partly realized. The modern young man will never change his environment; for he will always change his mind.

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

There is no bigot like the atheist.