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

A fool who, after plain warning, persists in dosing himself with dangerous drugs should be free to do so, for his death is a benefit to the race in general.

One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms. It is not only more effective; it is also vastly more intelligent.

Women hate revolutions and revolutionists. They like men who are docile, and well-regarded at the bank, and never late at meals.

There are two kinds of Europeans: The smart ones, and those who stayed behind.

Of government, at least in democratic states, it may be said briefly that it is an agency engaged wholesale, and as a matter of solemn duty, in the performance of acts which all self-respecting individuals refrain from as a matter of common decency.

To the best of my knowledge and belief, the average American newspaper, even of the so-called better sort, is not only quite as bad as Upton Sinclair says it is, but 10 times worse