Most Americans are born drunk, and really require a little wine or beer to sober them.

Surely we cannot take an open question like the supernatural and shut it with a bang, turning the key of the madhouse on all the mystics of history. You cannot take the region of the unknown and calmly say that, though you know nothing about it, you know all the gates are locked. We do not know enough about the unknown to know that it is unknowable.

I will go forth as a real outlaw," he said, "and as men do robbery on the highway I will do right on the highway; and it will be counted a wilder crime.

The Universe is the most extraordinary masterpiece ever constructed by nobody.

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

All we know of the Missing Link is that he is missing - and he won't be missed either.

To say that a man is an idealist is merely to say that he is a man.