Religion, after all, is nothing but an hypothesis framed to account for what is evidentially unaccounted for.

Poetry is a comforting piece of fiction set to more or less lascivious music.

New York is the place where all the aspirations of the western world meet to form one vast master aspiration, as powerful as the suction of a steam dredge. It is the icing on the pie called Christian civilization.

Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.

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 only liberty an inferior man really cherishes is the liberty to quit work, stretch out in the sun, and scratch himself.

The best teacher of children, in brief, is one who is essentially childlike.