Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it—religious fanaticism.

The purpose of life is to live it.

As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.

In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in God and in personal immortality.

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

The best way to understand somebody else is to put yourself in his place.

I am sure of very little, and I shouldn't be surprised if those things were wrong.