As long as the Southern colleges have revivals on their campuses and students get converted to Methodism and join the YMCA and are accepted as gentlemen, it will be impossible to think of the South as civilized...The educated folk of the Old South took theology lightly, and religion to them was hardly more than a charming ritual, useful on solemn occassions.

Hamlet has been played by 5,000 actors, no wonder he is crazy.

The effect of every sort of New Deal is to increase and prosper the criminal class. It teaches precisely what all professional criminals believe, to wit, that, it is neither virtuous nor necessary to suffer and to do without.

The so-called religious organizations which now lead the war against the teaching of evolution are nothing more, at bottom, than conspiracies of the inferior man against his betters.

A sense of humor always withers in the presence of the messianic delusion, like justice and the truth in front of patriotic passion.

Philosophy, as the modern world knows it, is only intellectual club-swinging.

The life of man in this world is like the life of a fly in a room filled with 100 boys, each armed with a fly-swatter.