The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things.

Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.

To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.

The strongest wish of a vast number of earnest men and women to-day is for a basis of religious belief which shall rest, not upon tradition or external authority or historical evidence, but upon the ascertainable facts of human experience. The craving for immediacy, which we have seen to be characteristic of all mysticism, now takes the form of a desire to establish the validity of the God-consciousness as a normal part of the healthy inner life.

Experience proves that none is so cruel as the disillusioned sentimentalist.

My dear, we live in an age of transition.