Religion deserves no more respect than a pile of garbage.

The best years are the forties; after fifty a man begins to deteriorate, but in the forties he is at the maximum of his villainy.

I believe that all government is evil, in that all government must necessarily make war on liberty, and that the democratic government is at least as bad as any of the other forms.

Men always try to make virtues of their weaknesses. Fear of death and fear of life both become piety.

Sometimes the idiots outvote the sensible people.

The objection to Puritans is not that they try to make us think as they do, but that they try to make us do as they think.

Fame: an embalmer trembling with stage fright.