"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widely spread belief is more likely t…"

"The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge."

"I should not hold it desirable that either a man or a woman should enter upon the serious business of a marriage intended to lead to children without having had previous sexual experience."

"The opinion that snow is white must be held to show a morbid taste for eccentricity…"

"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts."