Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to the average person.

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

In dealing with Englishmen you can be sure of one thing only, that the logical solution will not be adopted.

The right use of leisure is no doubt a harder problem than the right use of our working hours. The soul is dyed the color of its leisure thoughts.

I have never understood why it should be considered derogatory to the Creator to suppose that he has a sense of humour.

In praising science, it does not follow that we must adopt the very poor philosophies which scientific men have constructed. In philosophy they have much more to learn than to teach.

We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.