There is no logical connection between flying and laying eggs.

These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.

A sober man may become a drunkard through being a coward. A brave man may become a coward through being a drunkard.

The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.

The position we have now reached is this: starting from the State, we try to remedy the failures of all the families, all the nurseries, all the schools, all the workshops, all the secondary institutions that once had some authority of their own. Everything is ultimately brought into the Law Courts. We are trying to stop the leak at the other end.

We do not admire, we hardly excuse, the fanatic who wrecks this world for love of the other. But what are we to say of the fanatic who wrecks this world out of hatred of the other? He sacrifices the very existence of humanity to the non-existence of God. He offers his victims not to the altar, but merely to assert the idleness of the altar and the emptiness of the throne. He is ready to ruin even that primary ethic by which all things live, for his strange and eternal vengeance upon some one who never lived at all.

The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.