It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.

Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt.

Man must have just enough faith in himself to have adventures, and just enough doubt of himself to enjoy them.

There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.

If a rhinoceros were to enter this restaurant now, there is no denying he would have great power here. But I should be the first to rise and assure him that he had no authority whatever.

Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.

...but out of the desert, from the dry places and the dreadful suns, come the cruel children of the lonely God; the real Unitarians who with scimitar in hand have laid waste the world. For it is not well for God to be alone.