A beetle may or may not be inferior to a man - the matter awaits demonstration; but if he were inferior by ten thousand fathoms, the fact remains that there is probably a beetle view of things of which a man is entirely ignorant. If he wishes to conceive that point of view, he will scarcely reach it by persistently revelling in the fact that he is not a beetle.

The average businessman began to be agnostic, not so much because he did not know where he was, as because he wanted to forget. Many of the rich took to scepticism exactly as the poor took to drink; because it was a way out.

The atheist is not interested in anything except attacks on atheism.

An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.

The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic.

Only poor men get hanged.