None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

I am firm; YOU are obstinate; HE is a pig-headed fool.

Nine-tenths of the activities of a modern Government are harmful; therefore the worse they are performed, the better.

Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken.

An atheist, like a Christian, holds that we can know whether or not there is a God. The Christian holds that we can know there is a God; the atheist, that we can know there is not. The Agnostic suspends judgment, saying that there are not sufficient grounds either for affirmation or for denial. At the same time, an Agnostic may hold that the existence of God, though not impossible, is very improbable; he may even hold it so improbable that it is not worth considering in practice. In that case, he is not far removed from atheism.

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

Education, and the life of the mind generally, is a matter in which individual initiative is the chief thing needed; the function of the state should begin and end with insistence on some kind of education, and, if possible, a kind which promotes mental individualism, not a kind which happens to conform to the prejudices of government officials.