All men thirst to confess their crimes more than tired beasts thirst for water; but they naturally object to confessing them while other people, who have also committed the same crimes, sit by and laugh at them.

Self-denial is the test and definition of self-government.

We are learning to do a great many clever things. The next great task will be to learn not to do them.

Truth is sacred; and if you tell the truth too often nobody will believe it.

There are many ways to fall down, but there's only one way to stand up straight.

Our civilization has decided that determining the guilt or innocence of men is a thing too important to be trusted to trained men. When it wants a library catalogued, or the solar system discovered, or any trifle of that kind, it uses up its specialists. But when it wishes anything done which is really serious, it collects twelve of the ordinary men standing round. The same thing was done, if I remember right, by the Founder of Christianity.

Shouldn't atheist have an equal obligation to explain pleasure in a world of randomness. Where does pleasure come from?