No matter what the belief, if it had modestly said, 'This is our best thought, go on, think farther!' then we could have smoothly outgrown our early errors and long since have developed a religion such as would have kept pace with an advancing world. But we were made to believe and not allowed to think. We were told to obey, rather than to experiment and investigate.

As for mother Eve - I wasn't there and can't deny the story, but I will say this. If she brought evil into the world, we men have had the lion's share of keeping it going ever since.

It is not for nothing that a man's best friends sigh when he marries, especially if he is a man of genius.

A man does not have to stay at home all day, in order to love it; why should a woman?

Fine blunderers in ethics we are, so generally conveying to children the basic impression that pleasantness must be wrong, and right doing unpleasant!

The softest, freest, most pliable and changeful living substance is the brain-the hardest and most iron-bound as well.

The one predominant duty is to find one's work and do it.