America is the only country ever founded on a creed.

Then I only wondered who put the toys in the stocking; now I wonder who put the stocking by the bed, and the bed in the room, and the room in the house, and the house on the planet, and the great planet in the void.

There'd be a lot less scandal if people didn't idealize sin and pose as sinners.

But they none of them create the psychological conditions in which I first saw, or desired to see, the flower.

If I did not believe in God, I should still want my doctor, my lawyer and my banker to do so.

There is not really any courage at all in attacking hoary or antiquated things, any more than in offering to fight one's grandmother. The really courageous man is he who defies tyrannies young as the morning and superstitions fresh as the first flowers. The only true free-thinker is he whose intellect is as much free from the future as from the past.

In all legends men have thought of women as sublime separately but horrible in a herd.