At present there is not a single credible established religion in the world.

The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as if you were in Heaven, where there are no thirdclass carriages, and one soul is as good as another.

This is my father. Try what you can with him! He won't listen to me, because he remembers what a fool I was when I was a baby.

If in the library of your house you do not have the works of the ancient Greek writers, then you live in a house with no light.

In the arts of life main invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence and famine. ... There is nothing in Man's industrial machinery but his greed and sloth: his heart is in his weapons.

We are not taught to think decently on sex subjects, and consequently we have no language for them except indecent language.

I was a cannibal for twenty-five years. For the rest I have been a vegetarian.