Man is an animal with primary instincts of survival. Consequently his ingenuity has developed first and his soul afterwards. The progress of science is far ahead of man's ethical behavior.

All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.

In Philadelphia, I inadvertently came upon an edition of Robert Ingersoll's Essays and Lectures. This was an exciting discovery; his atheism confirmed my own belief that the horrific cruelty of the Old Testament was degrading to the human spirit.

Your Pain May Give Laugh To Somebody But Your Laugh Shouldn't Give Pain To Anybody

I remain just one thing, and one thing only - and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.

Quebec from the boat looked like the ramparts where Hamlet's ghost might have walked.

As long as men die, liberty will never parish.