All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them.

The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable.

Clergyman: A ticket speculator outside the gates of Heaven.

Of all the human qualities, the one I admire the most is competence. A tailor who is really able to cut and fit a coat seems to me an admirable man, and by the same token a university professor who knows little or nothing of the thing he presumes to teach seems to me to be a fraud and a rascal.

The liberation of the human mind has never been furthered by dunderheads.

How to Drink Like a Gentleman: The Things to Do and the Things Not To, as Learned in 30 Years' Extensive Research.

Philosophy, as the modern world knows it, is only intellectual club-swinging.