There is no greater hindrance to the progress of thought than an attitude of irritated party-spirit.

As society is now constituted, a literal adherence to the moral precepts scattered throughout the Gospels would mean sudden death.

The world is shocked, or amused, by the sight of saintly old people hindering in the name of morality the removal of obvious brutalities from a legal system.

Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.

Governments are best classified by considering who are the “somebodies” they are in fact endeavoring to satisfy.

No reason can be given for the nature of God, because that nature is the ground of rationality.

The difference between ancients and moderns is that the ancients asked what have we experienced, and moderns asked what can we experience.

Every epoch has its character determined by the way its population re-act to the material events which they encounter.

In every age of well-marked transition there is the pattern of habitual dumb practice and emotion which is passing, and there is oncoming a new complex of habit.

Fertilisation of the soul is the reason for the necessity of art.