No form of liberty is worth a darn [sic] which doesn't give us the right to do wrong now and then.

Lawyer: one who protects us against robbery by taking away the temptation.

The harsh, useful things of the world, from pulling teeth to digging potatoes, are best done by men who are as starkly sober as so many convicts in the death-house, but the lovely and useless things, the charming and exhilarating things, are best done by men with, as the phrase is, a few sheets in the wind.

Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.

The ideal way to get rid of any infectious disease would be to shoot instantly every person who comes down with it.

The priest, realistically considered, is the most immoral of men, for he is always willing to sacrifice every other sort of good to the one good of his arcanum - the vague body of mysteries that he calls the truth.

I can't imagine a genuinely intelligent boy getting much out of college, even out of a good college, save it be a cynical habit of mind.