When a woman gets the idea of justice, there's no teaching her any sense.

Politics is like navigation in a sea without charts, and wise men live the lives of pilgrims.

It is sometimes said that toleration should be refused to the intolerant. In practice this would destroy it... The only remedy for dogmatism and lies is toleration and the greatest possible liberty of expression.

The will is never free - it is always attached to an object, a purpose. It is simply the engine in the car - it can't steer

A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments.

The fear of hell, the punishment of sin, how the modern parent revolts from such teaching. Yet I will assert that far from doing us children harm, it was a sure foundation to the world of our confidence, a master girder in our palace of delight.

No one can estimate the power of authority among poor and uneducated people in a world whose problems confuse even the wisest.