The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable.

At eight or nine, I suppose intelligence is no more than a small spot of light on the floor of a large and murky room.

The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is only a mouthing of cliches. What they mistake for thought is simply a repetition of what they have heard. My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.

The best client is a scared millionaire.

The only way to reconcile science and religion is to set up something which is not science and something that is not religion.

A man who is an agnostic by inheritance, so that he doesn't remember any time that he wasn't, has almost no hatred for the religious.

The fact is that the average man's love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice and truth.