Prayers are to men as dolls are to children. They are not without use and comfort, but it is not easy to take them very seriously.

There is no permanent absolute unchangeable truth; what we should pursue is the most convenient arrangement of our ideas.

There is one class of mind that loves to lean on rules and definitions, and another that discards them as far as possible. A faddist will generally ask for a definition of faddism, and one who is not a faddist will be impatient of being asked to give one.

There are two great rules of life; the one general and the other particular. The first is that everyone can, in the end, get what he wants, if he only tries. That is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is, more or less, an exception to the rule.

Prayers are to men as dolls are to children. They are not without use and comfort, but it is not easy to take them very seriously.

The only absolute morality is absolute stagnation.

Spare the rod and spoil the child.