It is more blessed to give than receive; for example, wedding presents.

Men always try to make virtues of their weaknesses. Fear of death and fear of life both become piety.

The way to deal with superstition is not to be polite to it, but to tackle it with all arms, and so rout it, cripple it, and make it forever infamous and ridiculous.

You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.

As long as you represent me as praising alcohol I shall not complain. It is, I believe, the greatest of human inventions, and by far - much greater than Hell, the radio or the bichloride tablet.

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

Capitalism undoubtedly has certain boils and blotches upon it, but has it as many as government? Has it as many as marriage? Has it as many as religion? I doubt it. It is the only basic institution of modern man that shows any genuine health and vigor.