The main thing that every political campaign in the United States demonstrates is that the politicians of all parties, despite their superficial enmities, are really members of one great brotherhood. Their principal, and indeed their sole, object is to collar public office, with all the privileges and profits that go therewith. They achieve this collaring by buying votes with other people's money.

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

The average schoolmaster is, and always must be, an ass.

The theatre, when all is said and done, is not life in miniature, but life enormously magnified, life hideously exaggerated.

In every woman's life there is one real and consuming love. But very few women guess which one it is.

What is the professor's function? To pass on to numskulls a body of so-called knowledge that is fragmentary, unimportant, and largely untrue.

The great achievement of liberal Protestantism was to make God boring.