The artist needs no religion beyond his work.

If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it

Theology, by diverting the attention of men from this life to another, and by endeavoring to coerce all men into one religion, constantly preaching that this world is full of misery, but the next world would be beautiful - or not, as the case may be - has forced on men the thought of fear where otherwise there might have been the happy abandon of nature.

He who influences the thought of his times influences the times that follow.

Wealth: A cunning device of Fate whereby men are made captive, and burdened with responsibilites from which only Death can file their fetters.