Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.

For nothing burns with such amazing speed, As the dry sticks of a religious creed.

The mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts.

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.

Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.

The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may think what we like and say what we think.

Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection.