Change is not progress.

Of government, at least in democratic states, it may be said briefly that it is an agency engaged wholesale, and as a matter of solemn duty, in the performance of acts which all self-respecting individuals refrain from as a matter of common decency.

Religion is fundamentally opposed to everything I hold in veneration - courage, clear thinking, honesty, fairness, and, above all, love of the truth.

Religion, after all, is nothing but an hypothesis framed to account for what is evidentially unaccounted for.

The first kiss is stolen by the man; the last is begged by the woman.

The central belief of every moron is that he is the victim of a mysterious conspiracy against his common rights and true deserts.

There are some people who read too much: the bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing.