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

People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

An almost unnatural vigilance is really required of the citizen because of the horrible rapidity with which human institutions grow old.

It seems a pity that psychology has destroyed all our knowledge of human nature.

The old assumption of the approximate impossibility of war really rested on a similar assumption about the impossibility of evil-and especially of evil in high places.

Boys like romantic [fairy] tales; but babies like realistic tales - because they find them romantic...This proves that even nursery tales only echo an almost prenatal leap of interest and amazement. These tales say that apples were golden only to refresh the forgotten moment when we found that they were green. They make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water.

Religious unity can look like a carnival and religious liberty can look like a funeral.