Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad, but chess players do.

Physical science is like simple addition: it is either infallible or it is false.

The average businessman began to be agnostic, not so much because he did not know where he was, as because he wanted to forget. Many of the rich took to scepticism exactly as the poor took to drink; because it was a way out.

I came to the conclusion that the optimist thought everything good except the pessimist, and that the pessimist thought everything bad, except himself.

Every man is important if he loses his life;and every man is funny if he loses his hat and has to run after it.

The whole point of the Eugenic pseudo-scientific theories is that they are to be applied wholesale, by some more sweeping and generalizing money power than the individual husband or wife or household. Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage each other's.

The only object of liberty is life.