“In my view, all that is necessary for faith is the belief that by doing our best we shall succeed in our aims: the improvement of mankind.”

Your faith rests on the future of yourself and others as individuals, mine in the future and fate of our successors.

I agree that faith is essential to success in life, but I do not accept your definition of faith, i.e. belief in life after death.

My method of thought and reasoning is influenced by a scientific training—if that were not so my scientific training will have been a waste and a failure.

In my view, all that is necessary for faith is the belief that by doing our best we shall succeed in our aims: the improvement of mankind.

Again, I see no reason why the belief that we are insignificant or fortuitous should lessen our faith.

I maintain that faith in this world is perfectly possible without faith in another world.

Science and everyday life cannot and should not be separated.

My method of thought and reasoning is influenced by a scientific training—if that were not so my scientific training will have been a waste and a failure.

I maintain that faith in this world is perfectly possible without faith in another world.

In my view, all that is necessary for faith is the belief that by doing our best we shall succeed in our aims: the improvement of mankind.

I see no reason to believe that a creator of protoplasm or primeval matter, if such there be, has any reason to be interested in our insignificant race in a tiny corner of the universe, and still less in us, as still more insignificant individuals.

I agree that faith is essential to success in life, but I do not accept your definition of faith, i.e. belief in life after death.

I would willingly go more primitive if it were necessary to preserve my freedom.

Your faith rests on the future of yourself and others as individuals, mine in the future and fate of our successors.

I see no reason to believe that a creator of protoplasm or primeval matter, if such there be, has any reason to be interested in our insignificant race in a tiny corner of the universe, and still less in us, as still more insignificant individuals.

What’s the use of doing all this work if we don’t get some fun out of this?

Make improvements, not excuses. Seek respect, not attention.

The education of women has of late been more attended to than formerly; yet they are still reckoned a frivolous sex, and ridiculed or pitied by the writers who endavour by satire or instruction to improve them.

Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.

Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they, therefore, remain bound.

Men are anxious to improve their circumstances but are unwilling to improve themselves.

You’re not perfect just the way you are. You could be better!

It’s appropriate and praiseworthy to associate with people whose lives would be improved if they saw your life improve.

Always place your becoming above your current being.