Government, like any other organism, refuses to acquiesce in its own extinction. This refusal, of course, involves the resistance to any effort to diminish its powers and prerogatives.

What is the function that a clergyman performs in the world? Answer: He gets his living by assuring idiots that he can save them from an imaginary hell.

People do not expect to find chastity in a whorehouse. Why, then, do they expect to find honesty and humanity in government, a congeries of institutions whose modus operandi consists of lying, cheating, stealing, and if need be, murdering those who resist?

Wife: a former sweetheart.

The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable.

It is impossible to believe that the same God who permitted His own son to die a bachelor regards celibacy as an actual sin.

After all, why be good? How many will actually believe it of us?