I can't talk religion to a man with bodily hunger in his eyes.

Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.

God made the world as an artist and that is why the world must learn from its artists.

Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its basis.

Suppose the world were only one of God's jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one?

Fashions are induced epidemics.

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.