That the world is in a bad shape is undeniable, but there is not the faintest reason in history to suppose that Christianity offers a way out.

We have almost reached the point where praise of rationality is held to mark a man as an old fogey regrettably surviving from a bygone age.

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

In the daily lives of most men and women, fear plays a greater part than hope: they are more filled with the thought of the possessions that others may take from them, than of the joy that they might create in their own lives and in the lives with which they come in contact. It is not so that life should be lived.

Among the Tibetans, one wife has many husbands, because men are too poor to support a whole wife.

The modern man thinks that everything ought to be done for the sake of something else, and never for its own sake.

I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.