The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period.

Prayers are to men as dolls are to children. They are not without use and comfort, but it is not easy to take them very seriously.

He dons are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.

The only absolute morality is absolute stagnation.

The public buys its opinions as it buys its meat, or takes in its milk, on the principle that it is cheaper to do this than to keep a cow. So it is, but the milk is more likely to be watered.

When people talk of atoms obeying fixed laws, they are either ascribing some kind of intelligence and free will to atoms or they are talking nonsense. There is no obedience unless there is at any rate a potentiality of disobeying.

The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.