Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

The early Christian rules of life were not made to last, because the early Christians did not believe that the world itself was going to last.

If women were as fastidious as men, morally or physically, there would be an end of the race.

You cannot be a hero without being a coward.

If there was twenty ways of telling the truth and only one way of telling a lie, the Government would find it out. It's in the nature of governments to tell lies.

If only for a half hour a day, a child should do something serviceable to the community

Obedience simulates subordination as fear of the police simulates honesty.