The main thing needed to make men happy is intelligence.

Africans had to be taught that nudity is wicked; this was done very cheaply by missionaries.

In spite of Death, the mark and seal of the parental control, Man is yet free, during his brief years, to examine, to criticise, to know, and in imagination to create. To him alone, in the world with which he is acquainted, this freedom belongs; and in this lies his superiority to the resistless forces that control his outward life.

There are infinite possibilities of error, and more cranks take up fashionable untruths than unfashionable truths.

It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true

Law in origin was merely a codification of the power of dominant groups, and did not aim at anything that to a modern man would appear to be justice

It is impossible to read in America, except on a train, because of the telephone. Everyone has a telephone, and it rings all day and most of the night.