"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt."

"The most fundamental of all moral duties is to exercise our intelligence to the utmost."

"It seems on the whole fair to regard Negroes as on the average inferior to white men, although for work in the tropics they are indispensable, so that their extermination (apart from the question of h…"

"It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion."

"The greatest part of what is called morality is merely a device for making others do our will."