Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak! Bury a sheep, and nothing happens but decay.

I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.

I prefer the man who calls his nonsense a mystery to him who who pretends it is a weighed, measured, analyzed fact.

Where there is no religion, hypocrisy becomes good taste.

We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation.

God is on the side of the big battalions.