Russell's prose has been compared by T.S. Eliot to that of David Hume's. I would rank it higher, for it had more color, juice, and humor. But to be lucid, exciting and profound in the main body of one's work is a combination of virtues given to few philosophers. Bertrand Russell has achieved immortality by his philosophical writings.

Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure.

To silence criticism is to silence freedom.

If one shoots at a king, one must not miss.

Stupidity is sometimes the greatest of historical forces.

Nonetheless, it still remains true that as a set of cognitive beliefs, religious doctrines constitute a speculative hypothesis of an extremely low order of probability.

Philosophy, most broadly viewed, is the critical survey of existence from the standpoint of value.