The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.
The confusion of marriage with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other single error.
The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.
Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.
Scratch an Englishman, and find a Protestant.
Science becomes dangerous only when it imagines that it has reached its goal.
Revolutionary movements attract those who are not good enough for established institutions as well as those who are too good for them.
No sooner had Jesus knocked over the dragon of superstition than Paul boldly set it on its legs again in the name of Jesus.
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
Nature holds no brief for the human experiment: it must stand or fall by its results. If Man will not serve, Nature will try another experiment.
I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.
Hatred is the coward’s revenge for being intimidated.