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.

It was the duty of wives to submit to husbands, not of husbands to submit to wives. . . men have stronger muscles than women.

No satisfaction based upon self-deception is solid, and however unpleasant the truth may be, it is better to face it once and for all, to get used to it, and to proceed to build your life in accordance with it.

This illustrates an important truth, namely, that the worse your logic, the more interesting the consequences to which it gives rise.

How about Pithecanthropus Erectus? Was it really he who ate the apple? Or was it Homo Pekiniensis?

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.

Dora and I are now married, but just as happy as we were before.