Science, at bottom, is really anti-intellectual. It always distrusts pure reason, and demands the production of objective fact.

Watching two women kiss is like watching two prizefighters shake hands.

Pastor: One employed by the wicked to prove to them by his example that virtue doesn't pay.

The intellectual heritage of the race belongs to the minority.

The fundamental trouble with marriage is that it shakes a man's confidence in himself, and so greatly diminishes his general competence and effectiveness. His habit of mind becomes that of a commander who has lost a decisive and calamitous battle. He quite trusts himself thereafter.

All talk of winning the people by appealing to their intelligence, of conquering them by impeccable syllogism, is so much moonshine.

If a sense of duty tortures a man, it also enables him to achieve prodigies.