The essence of science is that it is always willing to abandon a given idea for a better one; the essence of theology is that it holds its truths to be eternal and immutable.

Sunday is a day given over by Americans to wishing that the themselves were dead and in Heaven, and that their neighbors were dead and in Hell.

It is not the drinker, but the man who has just stopped drinking, who thinks the world is going to the dogs.

There comes a time in every man's life when he's consumed by the desire to spit on his palms, hoist the black flag and start cutting throats.

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.

If I had my way, any man guilty of golf would be ineligible for any office of trust in the United States.

In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell.