I detest converts almost as much as I do missionaries.

Fame: an embalmer trembling with stage fright.

Any man who, having a child or children he can't support, proceeds to have another should be sterilized at once.

No democratic delusion is more fatuous than that which holds that all men are capable of reason, and hence susceptible to conversion by evidence. If religions depended upon evidence for their prolongation, then all of them would collapse.

Experience is a poor guide to man, and is seldom followed. What really teaches a man is not experience, but observation.

The fact that I have no remedy for all the sorrows of the world is no reason for my accepting yours. It simply supports the strong probability that yours is a fake.

High-toned humanitarians constantly overestimate the sufferings of those they sympathize with.