The learned are seldom pretty fellows, and in many cases their appearance tends to discourage a love of study in the young.

The truth is that Christian theology, like every other theology, is not only opposed to the scientific spirit; it is also opposed to all other attempts at rational thinking.

The double standard of morality will survive in this world so long as the woman whose husband has been lured away is favoured with the sympathetic tears of other women, and a man whose wife has made off is laughed at by other men.

Religion, after all, is nothing but an hypothesis framed to account for what is evidentially unaccounted for.

Always remember this: If you don't attend the funerals of your friends, they will certainly not attend yours.

What reason is there for believing that a high death rate, in itself, is undesirable? To my knowledge none whatever. The plain fact is that, if it be suitably selective, it is extremely salubrious. Suppose it could be so arranged that it ran to 100% a year among politicians, executive secretaries, drive chairmen, and the homicidally insane? What rational man would object?

One horse-laugh is worth ten-thousand syllogisms.