The only good that I can see in the demonstration of the truth of "Spiritualism" is to furnish an additional argument against suicide. Better live a crossing-sweeper than die and be made to talk twaddle by a "medium" hired at a guinea a séance.

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of childhood into maturity.

There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are badly argued.

Though under-instruction is a bad thing, it is not impossible that over-instruction may be worse.

I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title of 'agnostic'.

That man, I think, has had a liberal education, who has been so trained in youth that his body is the ready servant of his will.

For myself I say deliberately, it is better to have a millstone tied round the neck and be thrown into the sea than to share the enterprises of those to whom the world has turned, and will turn, because they minister to its weaknesses and cover up the awful realities which it shudders to look at.