Never underestimate the bad taste of the American public

The best client is a scared millionaire.

After all, the world is not our handiwork, and we are not responsible for what goes on in it, save within very narrow limits.

There is no idea so stupid that you can't find a professor who will believe it.

There is no possibility whatsoever of reconciling science and theology, at least in Christendom. Either Jesus arose from the dead or He didn't. If he did, then Christianity becomes plausible; if He did not, then it is sheer nonsense. I defy any genuine scientists to say that he believes in the Resurrection, or indeed in any other cardinal dogma of the Christian system.

Friendship is a common belief in the same fallacies, mountebanks and hobgoblins.

The net effect of Clarence Darrow's great speech yesterday seemed to be precisely the same as if he had bawled it up a rainspout in the interior of Afghanistan.