The book of Genesis, a farrago of nonsense so wholly absurd that even Sunday-school scholars have to be threatened with Hell to make them accept it.

There are two kinds of music; German music and bad music.

What we need in this country is a general improvement in eating. We have the best raw materials in the world, both quantitatively and qualitatively, but most of them are ruined in the process of preparing them for the table.

Whenever a reporter is assigned to cover a Methodist conference, he comes home an atheist.

The state remains, as it was in the beginning, the common enemy of all well-disposed, industrious and decent men.

The scientist who yields anything to theology, however slight, is yielding to ignorance and false pretenses, and as certainly as if he granted that a horse-hair put into a bottle of water will turn into a snake.

Henry James would have been vastly improved as a novelist by a few whiffs of the Chicago stockyard.