A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.

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.

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.

Liberty is the right to do what I like; licence, the right to do what you like.

Right conduct can never, except by some rare accident, be promoted by ignorance or hindered by knowledge.

Neither the Church nor modern public opinion condemns petting, provided it stops short at a certain point.

Emphatic and reiterated assertion, especially during childhood, produces in most people a belief so firm as to have a hold even over the unconscious.