I go to a better tailor than any of you and pay more for my clothes. The only difference is that you probably don't sleep in yours.

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.

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

Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document? We now know pretty well where the various books came from, and about when they were written. We know that they were written by human beings who had no knowledge of science, little knowledge of life, and were influenced by the barbarous morality of primitive times, and were grossly ignorant of most things that men know today.

I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.

Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man. She will have nothing from him who will not give her all. She knows that his pretended love serves but to betray. But when once the fierce heat of her quenchless, lustrous eyes have burned into the victim's heart, he will know no other smile but hers.

One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.