Hygiene is the corruption of medicine by morality.

The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is only a mouthing of clichés.

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

Off goes the head of the king, and tyranny gives way to freedom. The change seems abysmal. Then, bit by bit, the face of freedom hardens, and by and by it is the old face of tyranny. Then another cycle, and another. But under the play of all these opposites there is something fundamental and permanent - the basic delusion that men may be governed and yet be free.

There are some politicians who, if their constituents were cannibals, would promise them missionaries in every pot.

Jealousy is a keen observer, but looks for all the wrong signs.

The most satisfying and ecstatic faith is almost purely agnostic. It trusts absolutely without professing to know at all.