The atheist is not interested in anything except attacks on atheism.

Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all... As long as matters are really hopeful, hope is mere flattery or platitude; it is only when everything is hopeless that hope begins to be a strength.

All that we call spirit and art and ecstacy only means that for one awful instant we remember that we forgot.

Because our expression is imperfect we need friendship to fill up the imperfections.

The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.

The people has no definite disbelief in the temples of theology. The people has a very fiery and practical disbelief in the temples of physical science.

The materialist is sure that history has been simply and solely a chain of causation, just as the [lunatic] is quite sure that he is simply and solely a chicken. Materialists and madmen never have doubts.