Since the early days, [the church] has thrown itself violently against every effort to liberate the body and mind of man. It has been, at all times and everywhere, the habitual and incorrigible defender of bad governments, bad laws, bad social theories, bad institutions. It was, for centuries, an apologist for slavery, as it was an apologist for the divine right of kings.

American journalism (like the journalism of any other country) is predominantly paltry and worthless. Its pretensions are enormous, but its achievements are insignificant.

Unsuccessful candidates for the Presidency should be quietly hanged as a matter of public sanitation and decorum.

I'm thoroughly convinced that editors don't help authors.

Fame: an embalmer trembling with stage fright.

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.

The Public ... demands certainties ... But there are not certainties