Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is doing a public service.

A good talker, even more than a good orator, implies a good audience.

If atheism is to be used to express the state of mind in which God is identified with the unknowable, and theology is pronounced to be a collection of meaningless words about unintelligible chimeras, then I have no doubt, and I think few people doubt.

The English literary movement at the end of the 18th century was obviously due in great part, if not mainly, to the renewed practice of walking.

Walking is the natural recreation for a man who desires not absolutely to suppress his intellect but to turn it out to play for a season.

Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is doing a public service.

When I ceased to accept the teaching of my youth, it was not so much a process of giving up beliefs, as of discovering that I had never really believed.