The importance of an individual thinker owes something to chance. For it depends upon the fate of his ideas in the minds of his successors.

I consider Christianity to be one of the great disasters of the human race... It would be impossible to imagine anything more un - Christianlike than theology.

A great society is a society in which its men of business think greatly of their functions.

Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.

The factor in human life provocative of a noble discontent is the gradual emergence of a sense of criticism, founded upon appreciation of beauty, and of intellectual distinction, and of duty.

Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.

A man really writes for an audience of about ten persons. Of course if others like it, that is clear gain. But if those ten are satisfied, he is content.