Evil is that which one believes of others.

It reminds me of a string of wet sponges; it reminds me of tattered washing on the line; it reminds me of stale bean soup, of college yells, of dogs barking idiotically through endless nights. It is so bad that a sort of grandeur creeps into it. It drags itself up out of the dark abyss of pish and crawls insanely up the topmost pinnacle of posh. It is rumble and bumble. It is flap and doodle. It is balder and dash.

Whenever A annoys or injures B on the pretense of saving or improving X, A is a scoundrel.

Looking for an honest politician is like looking for an ethical burglar.

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

The essence of science is that it is always willing to abandon a given idea for a better one; the essence of theology is that it holds its truths to be eternal and immutable.

The Public ... demands certainties ... But there are not certainties