It was morality that burned the books of the ancient sages, and morality that halted the free inquiry of the Golden Age and substituted for it the credulous imbecility of the Age of Faith. It was a fixed moral code and a fixed theology which robbed the human race of a thousand years by wasting them upon alchemy, heretic-burning , witchcraft and sacerdotalism.

Whenever a reporter is assigned to cover a Methodist conference, he comes home an atheist.

Man's objection to love is that it dies hard: women's, that when it is dead it stays dead.

A man of active and resilient mind outwears his friendships just as certainly as he outwears his love affairs, his politics and his epistemology.

Good government is that which delivers the citizen from being done out of his life and property too arbitrarily and violently-one that relieves him sufficiently from the barbaric business of guarding them to enable him to engage in gentler, more dignified, and more agreeable undertakings.

The most valuable of all human possessions, next to a superior and disdainful air, is the reputation of being well-to-do.

It costs more to maintain ten vices than one virtue.