For religion all men are equal, as all pennies are equal, because the only value of any of them is that they bear the image of the king.

He wondered why the pelican was the symbol of charity, except it was that it wanted a good deal of charity to admire a pelican.

We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.

Hope means expectancy when things are otherwise hopeless.

As an explanation of the world materialism has a sort of insane simplicity. It has the quality of a madman's arguments; we have at once the sense of it covering everything and the sense of it leaving everything out.

We do not need to get good laws to restrain bad people. We need to get good people to restrain us from bad laws.

Mr. McCabe thinks that I am not serious but only funny, because Mr. McCabe thinks that funny is the opposite of serious. Funny is the opposite of not funny and nothing else.