It would have saved trouble had I remained Perkins from the first, this changing of women's names is a nuisance we are now happily outgrowing.

A house does not need a wife any more than it needs a husband.

I have preferred chloroform to cancer

To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something.

It cannot be too strongly asserted that the insistence on blind, unreasoning faith is due mainly to the maintenance of a subject-matter upon which there was no knowledge, namely the 'other world'; and that this basis was assumed because of early man's preoccupation with death. It is, unfortunately, quite possible to believe a thing which is contradicted by facts, especially if the facts are not generally known; but if the whole position on which we rested our religions had been visibly opposed by what we did know, even the unthinking masses would, in time, have noticed it.

The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society - more briefly, to find your real job, and do it.

Life is a verb, not a noun.