There are two impossibilities in life: "just one drink" and "an honest politician."

In human history a moral victory is always a disaster, for it debauches and degrades both the victor and the vanquished.

Let no one mistake it for comedy, farcical though it may be in all its details. It serves notice on the country that Neanderthal man is organizing in these forlorn backwaters of the land, led by a fanatic, rid of sense and devoid of conscience.

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.

Liberals have many tails and chase them all.

I believe that it should be perfectly lawful to print even things that outrage the pruderies and prejudices of the general, so long as any honest minority, however small, wants to read them. The remedy of the majority is not prohibition, but avoidance.

The effort to reconcile science and religion is almost always made, not by theologians, but by scientists unable to shake off altogether the piety absorbed with their mother's milk.