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

We have built into the constitution of the human race the habit and desire of taking, as divorced from its natural precursor and concomitant of making.

The peculiarity of all death-based religions is that their subject-matter is entirely outside of facts. Men could think and think, talk and argue, advance, deny, assert, and controversy, and write innumerable books, without being hampered at any time by any fact.

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

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

To work is not only a right, it is a duty. To work to the full capacity of one's powers is necessary for human development - the full use of one's best faculties - this is the health and happiness for both man and woman.

California is a state peculiarly addicted to swift enthusiasms. It is a seed-bed of all manner of cults and theories, taken up, and dropped, with equal speed.