One learns one’s mystery at the price of one’s innocence.

There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.

I just am a Canadian. It is not a thing which you can escape from. It is like having blue eyes

Very often when I am introduced to women, I think, What is she really like behind the disguise which she wears? And very often I discover that she is pleasant enough, and probably would expand and glow if she received enough affection.

Whether you are really right or not doesn't matter; it's the belief that counts.

I do not 'get' ideas; ideas get me

But as a skeptic I am dubious about science as about everything else, unless the scientist is himself a skeptic, and few of them are. The stench of formaldehyde may be as potent as the whiff of incense in stimulating a naturally idolatrous understanding.