Religion is a conceited effort to deny the most obvious realities.

We suffer most when the White House busts with ideas.

A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin or when he sees silver he looks for the cloud it lines. A wise happy person does the exact opposite.

A gentlemen is one who never strikes a woman without provocation.

Experience is a poor guide to man, and is seldom followed. What really teaches a man is not experience, but observation.

That it should still be necessary, at this late stage in the senility of the human race to argue that women have a fine and fluent intelligence is surely an eloquent proof of the defective observation, incurable prejudice, and general imbecility of their lords and masters.

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.