Orthodoxy: That peculiar condition where the patient can neither eliminate an old idea nor absorb a new one.

Wise Man: One who sees the storm coming before the clouds appear.

Football: A sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture.

Piety is the tinfoil of pretense.

We are not punished for our sins, but by them.

I have noticed that youngsters given to the climbing habit usually do something when they grow up

Do you say that religion is still needed? Then I answer that Work, Study, Health and Love constitute religion. . . . Most formal religions have pronounced the love of man for woman and woman for man an evil thing. . . . They have said that sickness was sent from God. . . . Now we deny it all, and again proclaim that these will bring you all the good there is: Health, Work, Study - Love!