The true aim of medicine is not to make men virtuous; it is to safeguard and rescue them from the consequences of their vices. The physician does not preach repentance; he offers absolution.

If I ever mary, it will be on a suddn impulse - as aman shoots himself

Deep within the heart of every evangelist lies the wreck of a car salesman.

As long as the Southern colleges have revivals on their campuses and students get converted to Methodism and join the YMCA and are accepted as gentlemen, it will be impossible to think of the South as civilized...The educated folk of the Old South took theology lightly, and religion to them was hardly more than a charming ritual, useful on solemn occassions.

All government is, in its essence, organized exploitation, and in virtually all of its existing forms it is the implacable enemy of every industrious and well-disposed man.

No man of honor ever quite lives up to his code, any more than a moral man manages to avoid sin.

Religion is a conceited effort to deny the most obvious realities.