The most common of all follies is to believe in the palpably untrue.

Whenever a reporter is assigned to cover a Methodist conference, he comes home an atheist.

The only really respectable Protestants are the fundamentalists. Unfortunately, they are also palpable idiots.

Haste is of the devil. Slowness is of God.

The notion that science does not concern itself with first causes - that it leaves the field to theology or metaphysics, and confines itself to mere effects - this notion has no support in the plain facts. If it could, science would explain the origin of life on earth at once - and there is every reason to believe that it will do so on some not too remote tomorrow. To argue that gaps in knowledge which will confront the seeker must be filled, not by patient inquiry, but by intuition or revelation, is simply to give ignorance a gratuitous and preposterous dignity.

I believe that it should be perfectly lawful to print even things that outrage the pruderies and prejudices of the general, so long as any honest minority, however small, wants to read them. The remedy of the majority is not prohibition, but avoidance.

Only a jackass ever talks over his affairs with a woman, whether she be his sweetheart, wife, or sister, or mother.