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.

The lunatic fringe wags the underdog.

Confidence: The feeling that makes one believe a man, even when one knows that one would lie in his place

Bridges would not be safer if only people who knew the proper definition of a real number were allowed to design them.

The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable.

To denounce moralizing out of hand is to pronounce a moral judgment.

Why do men go to zoos?