Where are there are two desires in a man's heart he has no choice between the two but must obey the strongest, there being no such thing as free will in the composition of any human being that ever lived.

If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could to-day.

Where prejudice exists it always discolors our thoughts.

What do you think of the human mind? I mean, in case you think there is a human mind.

The pulpit and the optimist are always talking about the human race's steady march toward ultimate perfection. As usual, they leave out the statistics. It is the pulpit's way - the optimist's way.

The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.

I love to revel in philosophical matters-especially astronomy. I study astronomy more than any other foolishness there is. I am a perfect slave to it. I am at it all the time. I have got more smoked glass than clothes. I am as familiar with the stars as the comets are. I know all the facts and figures and have all the knowledge there is concerning them. I yelp astronomy like a sun-dog, and paw the constellations like Ursa Major.