When you meet with opposition, even if it should be from your husband or your children, endeavor to overcome it by argument and not by authority, for a victory dependent upon authority is unreal and illusory.

Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.

There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.

God and Satan alike are essentially human figures, the one a projection of ourselves, the other of our enemies.

I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.

It is for this reason that rationality is of supreme importance to the well-being of the human species...even more, in those less fortunate times in which it is despised and rejected as the vain dream of men who lack the virility to kill where they cannot agree.

Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.