The most curious social convention of the great age in which we live is the one to the effect that religious opinions should be respected.

The American people, I am convinced, really detest free speech. At the slightest alarm they are ready and eager to put it down.

I detest converts almost as much as I do missionaries.

A gentlemen is one who never strikes a woman without provocation.

Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.... A man full of faith is simply one who has lost (or never had) the capacity for clear and realistic thought. He is not a mere ass: he is actually ill.

Man, at his best, remains a sort of one-lunged animal, never completely rounded and perfect, as a cockroach, say, is perfect.

Popularity--The capacity for listening sympathetically when men boast of their wives and women complain of their husbands.