There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.
Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
Among the Tibetans, one wife has many husbands, because men are too poor to support a whole wife.
All religions are both harmful and untrue.
I am sometimes shocked by the blasphemies of those who think themselves pious.
It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals.