The known is finite, the unknown infinite; spiritually we find ourselves on a tiny island in the middle of a boundless ocean of the inexplicable. It is our task, from generation to generation, to drain a small amount of additional land.

The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins.

The world is neither wise nor just, but it makes up for all its folly and injustice by being damnably sentimental.

Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion!

Without seeing any reason to believe that women are, on the average, so strong physically, intellectually, or morally, as men, I cannot shut my eyes to the fact that many women are much better endowed in all these respects than many men, and I am at a loss to understand on what grounds of justice or public policy a career which is open to the weakest and most foolish of the male sex should be forcibly closed to women of vigor and capacity.

The sceptics end in the infidelity which asserts the problem to be insoluble, or in the atheism which denies the existence of any orderly progress and governance of things: the men of genius propound solutions which grow into systems of Theology or of Philosophy, or veiled in musical language which suggests more than it asserts, take the shape of the Poetry of an epoch.

Agnosticism simply means that a man shall not say that he knows or believes that for which he has no grounds for professing to believe.