The difference between the child and the man lies chiefly in the unlimited confidence and buoyancy of youth.

There are two things that kill a genius - a fatal disease and contentment.

We know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a padded cell.

Chloroform unfit children. Show them the same mercy that is shown beasts that are no longer fit to live.

The fact that there is a general belief in a future life is no evidence of its truth

Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.

If there is a soul, what is it, and where did it come from, and where does it go? Can anyone who is guided by his reason possibly imagine a soul independent of a body, or the place of its residence, or the character of it, or anything concerning it? If man is justified in any belief or disbelief on any subject, he is warranted in the disbelief in a soul. Not one scrap of evidence exists to prove any such impossible thing.