The beautification of the world is not a work of nature, but a work of art, then it involves an artist.

Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.

The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in.

Self-denial is the test and definition of self-government.

Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.

When learned men begin to use their reason, then I generally discover that they haven't got any.

I never could see anything wrong in sensationalism; and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.