I never yet heard of a useless thing that was not ground out of existence by evolution sooner or later. Did you? And pain gets needless.

The religion of the atheist has a God-shaped blank at it's heart.

I write to cover a frame of ideas.

There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.

The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.

Money means in a thousand minds a thousand subtly different, roughly similar, systems of images, associations, suggestions and impulses.

After telephone, kinematograph and phonograph had replaced newspaper, book schoolmaster and letter, to live outside the range of the electric cables was to live an isolated savage.