Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse.

What is the professor's function? To pass on to numskulls a body of so-called knowledge that is fragmentary, unimportant, and largely untrue.

The Jews fastened their religion upon the Western world, not because it was more reasonable than the religions of their contemporaries - as a matter of fact, it was vastly less reasonable than many of them - but because it was far more poetical.

Evil: That which one believes of others. It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake

Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them. The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant.

The other day a dog peed on me. A bad sign.

No sane man objects to palpable lies about him; what he objects to is damaging facts.