The more a man dreams, the less he believes.

Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable.

The American people, I am convinced, really detest free speech. At the slightest alarm they are ready and eager to put it down.

To argue that the gaps in knowledge which confront the seeker must be filled, not by patient inquiry, but by intuition or revelation, is simply to give ignorance a gratuitous and preposterous dignity.

No man is worthy of unlimited reliance-his treason, at best, only waits for sufficient temptation.

The most curious social convention of the great age in which we live is the one to the effect that religious opinions should be respected.

The natural tendency of every government is to grow steadily worse-that is, to grow more satisfactory to those who constitute it and less satisfactory to those who support it.