I hate sports the way people who like sports hate common sense.

When we appropriate money from the public funds to pay for vaccinating a horde of negroes, we do not do it because we have any sympathy for them or because we crave their blessings, but simply because we don't want them to be falling ill of smallpox

No government is ever really in favor of so-called civil rights. It always tries to whittle them down. They are preserved under all governments, insofar as they survive at all, by special classes of fanatics, often highly dubious.

High-toned humanitarians constantly overestimate the sufferings of those they sympathize with.

The essence of science is that it is always willing to abandon a given idea for a better one; the essence of theology is that it holds its truths to be eternal and immutable.

I've made it a rule never to drink by daylight and never to refuse a drink after dark.

A bad artist almost always tries to conceal his incompetence by whooping up a new formula.