There is only one belief that can rob death of its sting and the grave of its victory. For without that you cannot be born again.

Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation.

Leisure may be defined as free activity, labor as compulsory activity. Leisure does what it likes, labor does what it must, the compulsion being that of Nature, which in these latitudes leaves men no choice between labor and starvation.

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

The longer I live, the more convinced am I that this planet is used by other planets as a lunatic asylum.

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.

Paradoxes are the only truths.