Religious liberty might be supposed to mean that everybody is free to discuss religion. In practice it means that hardly anybody is allowed to mention it.

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

For Scotland has a double dose of the poison called heredity; the sense of blood in the aristocrat, the sense of doom in the Calvinist.

Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem".

To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

The only object of liberty is life.

The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.