Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.

We do not like to be robbed of an enemy; we want someone to hate when we suffer. It is so depressing to think that we suffer because we are fools; yet, taking mankind in the mass, that is the truth.

Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.

Most of the greatest evils that man has inflicted upon man have come through people feeling quite certain about something which, in fact, was false.

The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.

Belief in God and a future life makes it possible to go through life with less of stoic courage than is needed by skeptics.

Whenever you find yourself getting angry about a difference of opinion, be on your guard; you will probably find, on examination, that your belief is going beyond what the evidence warrants.

There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.

Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.