In every serious doctrine of the destiny of men, there is some trace of the doctrine of the equality of men. But the capitalist really depends on some religion of inequality. The capitalist must somehow distinguish himself from human kind; he must be obviously above it or he would be obviously below it.

Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.

Aesthetes never do anything but what they are told.

For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.

Shouldn't atheist have an equal obligation to explain pleasure in a world of randomness. Where does pleasure come from?

Is ditchwater dull? Naturalists with microscopes have told me that it teems with quiet fun.

I despise Birth-Control first because it is ... an entirely meaningless word; and is used so as to curry favour even with those who would first recoil from its real meaning. The proceeding these quack doctors recommend does not control any birth.