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.

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

Boys and young men acquire readily the moral sentiments of their social milieu, whatever these sentiments may be.

Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government.

To realize the unimportance of time is the gate to wisdom.

No satisfaction based upon self-deception is solid.

One of the troubles about vanity is that it grows with what it feeds on. The more you are talked about, the more you will wish to be talked about.