The newspapers at one time said that I was dead but after carefully examining the evidence I came to the conclusion that this statement was false.

When the journey from means to end is not too long, the means themselves are enjoyed if the end is ardently desired.

In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards.

Fundamental happiness depends more than anything else upon what may be called a friendly interest in persons and things.

Memory demands an image.

As soon as we abandon our own reason, and are content to rely upon authority, there is no end to our troubles.

What makes a free thinker is not his beliefs, but the way in which he holds them. If he holds them because his elders told him they were true when he was young, or if he holds them because if he did not he would be unhappy, his thought is not free; but if he holds them because, after careful thought, he finds a balance in their favor, then his thought is free, however odd his conclusions may seem.