[Thomas Henry] Huxley, I believe, was the greatest Englishman of the Nineteenth Century—perhaps the greatest Englishman of all time. When one thinks of him, one thinks inevitably of such men as Goethe and Aristotle. For in him there was that rich, incomparable blend of intelligence and character, of colossal knowledge and high adventurousness, of instinctive honesty and indomitable courage which appears in mankind only once in a blue moon. There have been far greater scientists, even in England, but there has never been a scientist who was a greater man.

If there were only three women left in the world, two of them would immediately convene a court-martial to try the other one.

The final test of truth is ridicule. Very few dogmas have ever faced it and survived.

Economic independence is the foundation of the only sort of freedom worth a damn

The worst government is the most moral.

Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.

The believing mind reaches its perihelion in the so-called Liberals. They believe in each and every quack who sets up his booth inthe fairgrounds, including the Communists. The Communists have some talents too, but they always fall short of believing in the Liberals.