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.

Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can.

As long as more people will pay admission to a theater to see a naked body than to see a naked brain, the drama will languish.

When an apparent miracle happened.it proved divine mission to the credulous, and proved a contract with the devil to the skeptical.

Nature holds no brief for the human experiment; it must stand or fall by its results.