Many people believe that they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man.

Christianity promises to make men free; it never promises to make them independent.

I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.

A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit on it.

If the universe is running down like a clock, the clock must have been wound up at a date which we could name if we knew it. The world, if it is to have an end in time, must have had a beginning in time.

Man, as we know him, is a poor creature; he is halfway between an ape and a god and he is travelling in the right direction.

The modern world belongs to the half-educated, a rather difficult class, because they do not realize how little they know.