Here the only genuine conflict is between true believers. Of a given text in Holy Writ one faction may say this thing and another that, but both agree unreservedly that the text itself is impeccable, and neither in the midst of the most violent disputation would venture to accuse the other of doubt. To call a man a doubter in these parts is equal to accusing him of cannibalism. Even the infidel Scopes himself is not charged with any such infamy.

It is impossible to think of a man of any actual force and originality, universally recognized as having those qualities, who spent his whole life appraising and describing the work of other men.

Philosophy first constructs a scheme of happiness and then tries to fit the world to it.

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

Metaphysics is almost always an attempt to prove the incredible by an appeal to the unintelligible.

The true bureaucrat is a man of really remarkable talents. He writes a kind of English that is unknown elsewhere in the world, and an almost infinite capacity for forming complicated and unworkable rules.

If I had my way, any man guilty of golf would be ineligible for any office of trust in the United States.