Why do men go to zoos?

What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what may be described as a sense of humor

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.

The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy.

When I hear artists or authors making fun of businessmen, I think of a regiment in which the band makes fun of the cooks.

There are some people who read too much: the bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing.

The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science that smiles in your face while it picks your pocket.