A day will come when the European god of the nineteenth century will be classed with the gods of Olympus and the Nile.

Men prefer to believe that they are degenerated angels, rather than elevated apes.

As a single atom man is an enigma: as a whole he is a mathematical problem. As an individual he is a free agent, as a species the offspring of necessity.

What a state of society is this in which freethinker is a term of abuse, and in which doubt is regarded as sin?

Our enlightened posterity will look back upon us who eat oxen and sheep, just as we look upon cannibals.

One fact must be familiar to all those who have any experience of human nature - a sincerely religious man is often an exceedingly bad man.

It is a sure criterion of the civilisation of ancient Egypt that the soldiers did not carry arms except on duty, and that the private citizens did not carry them at all.

If we look into ourselves we discover propensities which declare that our intellects have arisen from a lower form; could our minds be made visible we should find them tailed.

Artistic genius is an expansion of monkey imitativeness.

It may safely be asserted that the art of war will soon be reduced to a simple question of expenditure and credit, and that the largest purse will be the strongest arm.

One book that has influenced the writer very strongly is Winwood Reade's Martyrdom of Man...It is still an extraordinarily inspiring presentation of human history as one consistent process.

If you want to be among the few who rule the world you therefore must learn to convert every time of your life, every second and minute that passes by.

He was under the mistaken impression that I didn't have enough tact.The truth was, I had no tact.

Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss.

I don't think that there is anything that is really magical unless it has a terrifying quality.

I'm particularly proud of anything the House and the Senate agree on.

Paper is a uniquely beautiful format, more so than the web, I think: you need to invest in the aesthetics.

I don't know what it is I'm doing. But it's not that. Despite all evidence to the contrary.

The man who knows when not to act is wise. To my mind bravery if forethought.

My husband is not running for the presidency, neither are my children, neither is our business, neither are our foster children.