All religions are both harmful and untrue.

Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.

Every sane and sensible and quiet thing we do is absolutely ignored by the press.

I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.

What will be the good of the conquest of leisure and health, if no one remembers how to use them?

Neither the Church nor modern public opinion condemns petting, provided it stops short at a certain point.

I am as drunk as a lord, but then, I am one, so what does it matter ?