Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.

Women have a thirst for order and beauty as for something physical; there is a strange female power of hating ugliness and waste as good men can only hate sin and bad men virtue.

An enormous amount of modern ingenuity is expended on finding defences for the indefensible conduct of the powerful. As I have said above, these defences generally exhibit themselves most emphatically in the form of appeals to physical science. And of all the forms in which science, or pseudo-science, has come to the rescue of the rich and stupid, there is none so singular as the singular invention of the theory of races.

There is no logical connection between flying and laying eggs.

Every man speaks of public opinion, and means by public opinion, public opinion minus his opinion.

Here ends another day, during which I have had eyes, ears, hands and the great world around me. Tomorrow begins another day. Why am I allowed two?

Certain new theologians dispute original sin, which is the only part of Christian theology which can really be proved.