There is, in fact, nothing about religious opinions that entitles them to any more respect than other opinions get. On the contrary, they tend to be noticeably silly.

All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them.

Confidence: The feeling that makes one believe a man, even when one knows that one would lie in his place

He sailed through American history like a steel ship loaded with monoliths of granite.

When we appropriate money from the public funds to pay for vaccinating a horde of negroes, we do not do it because we have any sympathy for them or because we crave their blessings, but simply because we don't want them to be falling ill of smallpox

It is almost impossible for an Anglo-Saxon to write of sex without being dirty.

I know of no human being who has a better time than an eager and energetic young reporter.