Modern man is educated to understand foreign languages and misunderstand foreigners.

A good joke is the closest thing we have to divine revelation.

In truth, there are only two kinds of people; those who accept dogma and know it, and those who accept dogma and don't know it.

We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press... It is not we who silence the press. It is the press who silences us.

Bigotry is an incapacity to conceive seriously the alternative to a proposition.

The old restriction meant that only the orthodox were allowed to discuss religion. Modern liberty means that nobody is allowed to discuss it. Good taste, the last and vilest of human superstitions, has succeeded in silencing us where all the rest have failed.

There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable.