Religion is a conceited effort to deny the most obvious realities.
Hope: A pathological belief in the occurrence of the impossible.
Skin diseases are something doctors like, the patient neither dies nor gets well.
A Puritan is someone who is desperately afraid that, somewhere, someone might be having a good time.
The war on privilege will never end. Its next grat campaign will be against the special privileges of the underprivileged.
No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man. In the highest confidence there is always a flavor of doubt--a feeling, half instinctive and half logical, that, after all, the scoundrel may have something up his sleeve.