Christianity is haunted by the theory of a God with a craving for bloody sacrifices.

While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced.

My final word, before I'm done, Is "Cancer can be rather fun"- Provided one confronts the tumour with a sufficient sense of humour. I know that cancer often kills, But so do cars and sleeping pills; And it can hurt till one sweats, So can bad teeth and unpaid debts. A spot of laughter, I am sure, Often accelerates one's cure; So let us patients do our bit To help the surgeons make us fit.

If human beings could be propagated by cutting, like apple trees, aristocracy would be biologically sound.

The extreme socialists desire to run every nation as a single business concern.

In fact, words are well adapted for description and the arousing of emotion, but for many kinds of precise thought other symbols are much better.

I have never yet met a healthy person who worried very much about his health, or a really good person who worried much about his own soul.