The Americans are the illegitimate children of the English.

I am a strict monogamist: it is twenty years since I last went to bed with two women at once, and then I was in my cups and not myself.

The priest, realistically considered, is the most immoral of men, for he is always willing to sacrifice every other sort of good to the one good of his arcanum - the vague body of mysteries that he calls the truth.

Conscience is the accumulated sediment of ancestral faint- heartedness

The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant, in this field as in all others. His culture is based on 'I am not too sure'.

The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.

Wife: a former sweetheart.