No article of faith is proof against the disintegrating effects of increasing information; one might almost describe the acquirement of knowledge as a process of disillusion.

A sound American is simply one who has put out of his mind all doubts and questionings, and who accepts instantly, and as incontrovertible gospel, the whole body of official doctrine of his day, whatever it may be and no matter how often it may change. The instant he challenges it, no matter how timorously and academically, he ceases by that much to be a loyal and creditable citizen of the republic.

The so-called religious organizations which now lead the war against the teaching of evolution are nothing more, at bottom, than conspiracies of the inferior man against his betters.

I hate sports the way people who like sports hate common sense.

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

A bad artist almost always tries to conceal his incompetence by whooping up a new formula.

Man's objection to love is that it dies hard: women's, that when it is dead it stays dead.