The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.

Thomas Aquinas states parenthetically, as something entirely obvious, that men are more rational than women. For my part, I see no evidence of this.

It is no credit to the orthodox that they do not now believe all the absurdities that were believed 150 years ago. The gradual emasculation of the Christian doctrine has been effected in spite of the most vigorous resistance, and solely as the result of the onslaughts of freethinkers.

To save the world requires faith and courage: faith in reason, and courage to proclaim what reason shows to be true.

America remained a land of promise for lovers of freedom. Even Byron, at a moment when he was disgusted with Napoleon for not committing suicide, wrote an eloquent stanza in praise of Washington.

The essence of life is doing things for their own sakes.

Life is just one cup of coffee after another, and don't look for anything else.