"Never let yourself be diverted, either by what you wish to believe, or what you think could have beneficent social effects if it were believed; but look only and solely at what are the facts."
"There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it."
"Anything you're good at contributes to happiness."
"And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence"
"Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change."
"It is evident as a matter of logic that, since they (world religions) disagree, not more than one of them can be true."