A man full of faith is simply one who has lost the capacity for clear and realistic thought.

Save among politicians it is no longer necessary for any educated American to profess belief in Thirteenth Century ideas

Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly. He is like a watch of which the most that can be said is that its cosmetic effect is good.

Christian endeavor is notoriously hard on female pulchritude.

In any combat between a rogue and a fool the sympathy of mankind is always with the rogue.

The way to hold a husband is to keep him a little jealous; the way to lose him is to keep him a little more jealous.

A government at bottom is nothing more than a group of men, and as a practical matter most of them are inferior men. ... Yet these nonentities, by the intellectual laziness of men in general ... are generally obeyed as a matter of duty (and) assumed to have a kind of wisdom that is superior to ordinary wisdom.