Writers seldom write the things they think. They simply write the things they think other folks think they think.

To know the great men dead is compensation for having to live with the mediocre.

Organized religion, being founded on superstition, is, perforce, not scientific. And all that which is not scientific - that is, truthful - must be bolstered up by force, fear and falsehood. Thus we always find slavery and organized religion going hand in hand.

Most people like hard work, particularly when they're paying for it.

Morality is the thing upon which your friends smile, and immorality is the thing upon which they frown

A book on cheap paper does not convince. It is not prized, it is like a wheezy doctor with pigtail tobacco breath, who needs a manicure.

A creed is an ossified metaphor.