I believe in only one thing and that thing is human liberty.

Once a woman passes a certain point in intelligence she finds it almost impossible to get a husband: she simply cannot go on listening without snickering.

Let no one mistake it for comedy, farcical though it may be in all its details. It serves notice on the country that Neanderthal man is organizing in these forlorn backwaters of the land, led by a fanatic, rid of sense and devoid of conscience.

The Jews fastened their religion upon the Western world, not because it was more reasonable than the religions of their contemporaries - as a matter of fact, it was vastly less reasonable than many of them - but because it was far more poetical.

I hate sports the way people who like sports hate common sense.

I roll out of my couch every morning with the more agreeable expectations.

The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science that smiles in your face while it picks your pocket.