The chief business of the nation, as a nation, is the setting up of heroes, mainly bogus.

The essence of self-fulfillment and autonomous culture is an unshakable egotism.

Why assume so glibly that the God who presumably created the universe is still running it? It is certainly conceivable that He may have finished it and then turned it over to lesser gods to operate.

When a husband's story is believed, he begins to suspect his wife.

There is something even more valuable to civilization than wisdom, and that is character.

Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.

The priest, realistically considered, is the most immoral of men, for he is always willing to sacrifice every other sort of good to the one good of his arcanum - the vague body of mysteries that he calls the truth.