Sometimes the idiots outvote the sensible people.

The liberation of the human mind has never been furthered by dunderheads; it has been furthered by gay fellows who heaved dead cats into sanctuaries and then went roistering down the highways of the world, proving to all men that doubt, after all, was safe - that the god in the sanctuary was finite in his power and hence a fraud. One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms. It is not only more effective; it is also vastly more intelligent.

Jealousy is a keen observer, but looks for all the wrong signs.

Absence is the dark-room in which lovers develop negatives.

The worshiper is the father of the gods.

No politician is ever benefited by saving money; it is spending it that makes him.

The Jews fastened their religion upon the Western world, not because it was more reasonable than the religions of their contemporaries - as a matter of fact, it was vastly less reasonable than many of them - but because it was far more poetical.