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

People in this world are not often logical.

Religious doctrines do not and clearly cannot be adopted as the criminal code of a state.

If there is to be any permanent improvement in man and any better social order, it must come mainly from the education and humanizing of man.

History repeats itself. That's one of the things wrong with history.

We are born and we die; and between these two most important events in our lives more or less time elapses which we have to waste somehow or other. In the end it does not seem to matter much whether we have done so in making money, or practicing law, or reading or playing, or in any other way, as long as we felt we were deriving a maximum of happiness out of our doings.

There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.