Religion deserves no more respect than a pile of garbage.

Unionism, seldom if ever, uses such powers as it has to ensure better work; almost always it devotes a large part of that power to safeguard bad work.

The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable.

[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.

The most valuable of all human possessions, next to a superior and disdainful air, is the reputation of being well-to-do.

The way for newspapers to meet the competition of radio and television is simply to get out better papers.

Pastor: One employed by the wicked to prove to them by his example that virtue doesn't pay.