Our necessities are few, but our wants are endless.

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

Laws, religions, creeds, and systems of ethics, instead of making society better than its best unit, make it worse than its average unit, because they are never up to date.

All sorts of bodily diseases are produced by half-used minds.

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.

It is not that I am so clever; it is that everyone else is so stupid.

We want a few mad people now. See where the sane ones have landed us!