What ass first let loose the doctrine that the suffrage is a high boon and voting a noble privilege?

Friendship is a common belief in the same fallacies, mountebanks and hobgoblins.

The townspeople are morons, yokels, peasants and genus homo boobiensis...surrounded by gaping primates from the upland vallies.

Only to often on meeting scientific men, even those of genuine distiction, one finds that they are dull fellows and very stupid. They know one thing to excess; they know nothing else. Pursuing facts too doggedly and unimaginatively, they miss all the charming things that are not facts. ... Too much learning, like too little learning, is an unpleasant and dangerous thing.

The Catholic clergy seldom bother to make their arguments plausible; it is plain that they have little respect for human intelligence, and indeed little belief in its existence.

To wage a war for a purely moral reason is as absurd as to ravish a woman for a purely moral reason

I've made it a rule never to drink by daylight and never to refuse a drink after dark.