What is important is to deeply understand things and their relations to each other. This is where intelligence lies. The fact of being quick or slow isn’t really relevant.

If it’s true that our species is alone in the universe, then I’d have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.

To me, God is like this happy bus driver.

Repentance seemed like too loose of a word. I knew I’d been wrong, but that didn’t soften the blow.

fights you on patriotic principles he robs you on business principles he enslaves you on imperial principles.

I admit that twice two makes four is an excellent thing but if we are to give everything its due twice two makes five is sometimes a very charming thing too.

It is men who face the biggest problems in the future, adjusting to their new and complicated role.

In spite of Jean-Jacques and his school, men are not everywhere born free, any more than they are everywhere in chains, unless these be of their own individual making.

Every good movement passes through five stages, indifference, ridicule, abuse, repression, and respect.

In general it may be said that demand is quite as necessary to the increase of capital as the increase of capital is to demand.

The trouble with the dictionary is that you have to know how a word is spelled before you can look it up to see how it is spelled.