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.

The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.

I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.

Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.

...finally men were saved only through God's son dying for them, and that unless human beings believed this silly, impossible and wicked story they were doomed to hell? Can anyone with intelligence really believe that a child born today should be doomed because the snake tempted Eve and Eve tempted Adam? To believe that is not God-worship; it is devil-worship.

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

Hoover, if elected, will do one thing that is almost incomprehensible to the human mind: he will make a great man out of Coolidge.