Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man.

All government, of course, is against liberty.

The Christian church, in its attitude toward science, shows the mind of a more or less enlightened man of the Thirteenth Century. It no longer believes that the earth is flat, but it is still convinced that prayer can cure after medicine fails.

It is impossible to think of a man of any actual force and originality, universally recognized as having those qualities, who spent his whole life appraising and describing the work of other men.

Next to the semi-colon, quotation marks seem to be the chief butts of reformatory ardor.

In any combat between a rogue and a fool the sympathy of mankind is always with the rogue.

Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable.