Our political experiment of democracy, the last refuge of cheap misgovernment.

I am oppressed with a dread of living forever. That is the only disadvantage of vegetarianism.

I've posed nude for a photographer in the manner of Rodin's Thinker, but I merely looked constipated.

We are more gullible and superstitious today than we were in the Middle Ages, and an example of modern credulity is the widespread belief that the Earth is round. The average man can advance not a single reason for thinking that the Earth is round. He merely swallows this theory because there is something about it that appeals to the twentieth century mentality.

Blasphemy and sedition (meaning the truth about Church and State).

Always strive to find out what to do by thinking, without asking anybody. If you continually do this, you will soon act like a grown-up woman. For want of doing this, a very great number of grown-up people act like children.

Religion is a great force - the only real motive force in the world; but what you fellows don't understand is that you must get at a man through his own religion and not through yours.