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 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.

Conscience is the accumulated sediment of ancestral faint- heartedness

The worst government is the most moral.

There are two kinds of Europeans: The smart ones, and those who stayed behind.

Philadelphia is the most pecksniffian of American cities, and thus probably leads the world.

After all is said and done, a hell lot of a lot more is said than done.