Modern masters of science are much impressed with the need of beginning all inquiry with a fact. The ancient masters of religion were quite equally impressed with that necessity. They began with the fact of sin-a fact as practical as potatoes. Whether or not man could be washed in miraculous waters, there was no doubt at any rate that he wanted washing.

The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church

Life is indeed terribly complicated—to a man who has lost his principles.

The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

There is no logical connection between flying and laying eggs.

The English are no nearer than they were a hundred years ago to knowing what Jefferson really meant when he said that God had created all men equal.

The miser is the man who starves himself and everybody else, in order to worship wealth in its dead form, as distinct from its living form.