No healthy man, in his secret heart, is content with his destiny. He is tortured by dreams and images as a child is tortured by the thought of a state of existence in which it would live in a candy store and have two stomachs.

The scientist who yields anything to theology, however slight, is yielding to ignorance and false pretenses, and as certainly as if he granted that a horse-hair put into a bottle of water will turn into a snake.

There are some people who read too much: The bibliobibuli.

In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell.

Sin is a dangerous toy in the hands of the virtuous. It should be left to the congenitally sinful, who know when to play with it and when to let it alone.

My guess is that well over eighty per cent. of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.

As long as you represent me as praising alcohol I shall not complain.