There is no bad day that can’t be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet. This is just truth, plain and simple.

... the greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what to do. Provided the rulers do not interfere with its material comforts and its cherished beliefs, it is perfectly happy to let itself be ruled.

Every idol, however exalted, turns out, in the long run, to be a Moloch, hungry for human sacrifice.

Compared with that of Taoists and Far Eastern Buddhists, the Christian attitude toward Nature has been curiously insensitive and often downright domineering and violent. Taking their cue from an unfortunate remark in Genesis, Catholic moralists have regarded animals as mere things which men do right to regard for their own ends. . . .

Maybe this world is another planet's Hell.

Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.

Civilization means food and literature all round. Beefsteaks and fiction magazines for all. First-class proteins for the body, fourth-class love-stories for the spirit.