Rational free spirits are the light brigade who go on ahead and reconnoiter the ground which the heavy brigade of the orthodox will eventually occupy.

As nations improve, so do their gods.

A book which, above all others in the world, should be forbidden, is a catalogue of forbidden books.

I have never yet met anyone who did not think it was an agreeable sensation to cut tinfoil with scissors.

Everyone should study at least enough philosophy and belles-lettres to make his sexual experience more delectable.

Many intelligent people, when about to write . . . , force on their minds a certain notion about style, just as they screw up their faces when they sit for their portraits.

As the few adepts in such things well know, universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much as in great ones. There is so much goodness and ingenuity in a raindrop that an apothecary wouldn't let it go for less than half-a-crown.