I do not believe that I am now dreaming, but I cannot prove that I am not.

The method of "postulating" what we want has many advantages; they are the same as the advantages of theft over honest toil.

There was a law in Connecticut - I believe it is still formally unrepealed - making it illegal for a man to kiss his wife on Sunday.

Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.

Well, there are many religions, but I suppose they all worship the same God.

Civilized people cannot fully satisfy their sexual instinct without love.

A habit of basing convictions upon evidence, and of giving to them only that degree or certainty which the evidence warrants, would, if it became general, cure most of the ills from which the world suffers.