Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable.

Bridges would not be safer if only people who knew the proper definition of a real number were allowed to design them.

In Baltimore, soft crabs are always fried (or broiled) in the altogether, with maybe a small jock-strap of bacon added.

Man's objection to love is that it dies hard: women's, that when it is dead it stays dead.

It is often argued that religion is valuable because it makes men good, but even if this were true it would not be a proof that religion is true. That would be an extension of pragmatism beyond endurance. Santa Claus makes children good in precisely the same way, and yet no one would argue seriously that the fact proves his existence. The defense of religion is full of such logical imbecilities.

The saddest life is that of a political aspirant under democracy. His failure is ignominious and his success is disgraceful.

Government today is growing too strong to be safe. There are no longer any citizens in the world there are only subjects. They work day in and day out for their masters they are bound to die for their masters at call. Out of this working and dying they tend to get less and less.