For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together.

There are two impossibilities in life: "just one drink" and "an honest politician."

The formula of the argument is simple and familiar: to dispose of a problem all that is necessary is to deny that it exists.

The so-called religious organizations which now lead the war against the teaching of evolution are nothing more, at bottom, than conspiracies of the inferior man against his betters.

A man who is an agnostic by inheritance, so that he doesn't remember any time that he wasn't, has almost no hatred for the religious.

It is a peculiarity of the American mind that it regards any excursion into the truth as an adventure into cynicism.

If the average man is made in God's image, then a man such as Beethoven or Aristotle is plainly superior to God, and so God may be jealous of him, and eager to see his superiority perish with his bodily frame.