The doctrine of transmigration… was a means of constructing a plausible vindication of the ways of the cosmos to man; … none but very hasty thinkers will reject it on the grounds of inherent absurdity.

The only question which any wise man can ask himself, and which any honest man will ask himself, is whether a doctrine is true or false.

Rome is the one great spiritual organisation which is able to resist and must, as a matter of life and death, the progress of science and modern civilization

The Bible has been the Magna Charta of the poor and of the oppressed.

Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of truth.

I have never been able to understand why pigeon-shooting at Hurlingham should be refined and polite, while a rat-killing match in Whitechapel is low.

It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.