The world is no nursery.
We are what we are because we have been what we have been.
When a man is freed of religion, he has a better chance to live a normal and wholesome life.
The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.
America is a mistake, a giant mistake.
The time comes when each of us has to give up as illusions the expectations which, in his youth, he pinned upon his fellow-men, and when he may learn how much difficulty and pain has been added to his life by their ill-will.