I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.
I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.
What is a man if he is not a thief who openly charges as much as he can for the goods he sells?
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
That service is the noblest rendereed for its own sake.
To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts, making the noblest of gods creation, women, the object of our lust.
I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won’t presume to probe into the fault of others.