"The modern power of the State began in the late fifteenth century and began as a result of gunpowder."

"The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way."

"Nothing can penetrate the loneliness of the human heart except the highest intensity of the sort of love the religious teachers have preached."

"It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true."

"In all affairs, it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted."