Broadly speaking, Protestants like to be good and have invented theology in order to keep themselves so, whereas Catholics like to be bad and have invented theology in order to keep their neighbors good. Hence, the social character of Catholicism and the individual character of Protestantism.

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.

A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.

Mathematics is only the art of saying the same thing in different words.

How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?

We may define "faith" as the firm belief in something for which there is no evidence. Where there is evidence, no one speaks of "faith." We do not speak of faith that two and two are four or that the earth is round. We only speak of faith when we wish to substitute emotion for evidence. The substitution of emotion for evidence is apt to lead to strife, since different groups, substitute different emotions.

For over two thousand years it has been the custom among earnest moralists to decry happiness as something degraded and unworthy